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KABULAGENCIES

A top Afghan peace mediator hailedPakistan’s recent decision to free ninemembers of the Taliban who favour ne-gotiations, saying Saturday it was a signIslamabad is willing to help bring themilitant group to the table and endAfghanistan’s 11-year-old war.

The cooperation of Pakistan, whichhas longstanding ties to the Taliban, isseen as key to jumpstarting the stalledAfghan peace process. The Afghan andUS governments accuse Islamabad ofbacking insurgents — an allegation Pak-istan denies — and say many militantleaders are hiding in the country.

Afghanistan needs Pakistan’s helpin reaching out to top Taliban leaders,but still insists that peace talks be led byAfghans, saying it will fight those whotry to interfere.

Salahuddin Rabbani, the head ofthe High Peace Council who led a del-egation to Islamabad this week, saidPakistan’s prisoner release marked ashift in the neighbouring country’spolicy. In the past, the Pakistanishave arrested Taliban figures inter-ested in peace talks with the Afghangovernment, he said, but now thegovernment is releasing them andpledging to give them safe passage tonegotiations.

“It seems that Pakistani officialshave realised that a close cooperationbetween Afghanistan and Pakistancan be effective for the peace initia-tive,” Rabbani said. “Of course, this isa vision we have been insisting on fora long time.”

Rabbani, whose delegation spentfour days in Islamabad this weekmeeting with high-ranking govern-ment, political and religious leaders,said Pakistan has pledged to releaseadditional Taliban prisoners who willbe allowed to stay in Pakistan, returnto Afghanistan or seek residence in a

third country. While nothing canguarantee they won’t rejoin Talibanfighters, Rabbani said he was confi-dent that they would continue to co-operate with the peace council. “Wewill be in contact with those re-leased,” he said.

Some members of the peace councilsuggested that Pakistan’s religious andpolitical leadership might be having achange of heart — in part because of vi-olence committed by Pakistan’s branchof the Taliban movement.

“This is the first time that we reallysaw some changing of the minds whilewe were speaking,” said QayumuddinKashaf, a member of peace council andhead of the top religious council inAfghanistan. He said that in the past,Pakistani religious leaders insisted thatinsurgents were waging a holy war inAfghanistan. “Now we see some chang-ing of the mindset because the securitysituation in Pakistan is very bad if notworse than Afghanistan.”

Others in Kabul believe, however,that Pakistan may simply be playing awaiting game, trying to appeaseAfghanistan with small gestures untilinternational troops leaveAfghanistan and the Taliban can tryto mount a comeback.

It’s unclear whether the Taliban areinterested in negotiating peace, but theinsurgent group welcomed the releaseof the prisoners. “Without a doubt, re-leasing prisoners fosters confidence be-tween two neighboring countries andtheir nations,” Taliban spokesmanZabihullah Mujahid said in a statementissued Friday.

During the delegation’s trip, bothcountries appealed to the Taliban tojoin the peace process and sever tieswith al Qaeda and other internationalterror networks. They said Pakistan,Afghanistan and the United Stateswould provide safe passage to mem-bers of the Taliban who want to talkwith negotiators.

They agreed to work with the inter-national community to removeprospective Taliban negotiators fromthe UN sanctions list so they can par-ticipate in any peace talks. The sanc-tions include a travel ban, armsembargo and assets freeze.

Afghanistan and Pakistan alsoagreed to hold a conference of religiousleaders and scholars from Islamic coun-tries to address violence in the name ofIslam, council members said.

The peace council did not identifythe prisoners who were freed, but anAfghan official familiar with the peaceprocess gave The Associated Press a listof eight. They were:n Nooruddin Turabi, former Taliban

justice minister.n Jahangirwal, a special assistant to

Taliban leader, Mullah Omar.n Qutub, a Taliban leader.n Abdul Salaam, former Taliban gov-

ernor of Baghlan province.n Maulvi Matiullah, the Taliban’s di-

rector of the customs house in Kabul.n Mahamad, the Taliban’s former gov-

ernor of Kunduz province.n Sayed Saduddin Agha, a former Tal-

iban commander.n Allah Dad, the Taliban’s former

deputy minister of communication.The ninth prisoner released was An-

warul Haq Mujahid, the son of the lateMohammad Yunus Khalis, who foughtagainst the Soviets in Afghanistan in the1980s. He has joined his family in thenorthwestern Pakistani city of Pe-shawar, according to a cousin and fam-ily friend who spoke on condition ofanonymity because they were not au-thorized to talk to the media.

Afghan officials are still hoping forthe release of the Taliban’s formerdeputy leader, Mullah Abdul GhaniBaradar, who was captured in Pak-istan in 2010. Baradar was reportedlyconducting talks with the Afghan gov-ernment that were kept secret fromthe Pakistanis.

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i N a major development, the National Ju-dicial Policy Making Committee(NJPMC) on Saturday allowed the Elec-tion Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to

hold the upcoming general elections underthe judiciary’s supervision.

The NJPMC, in its special meeting heldhere on Saturday in the Supreme Court withChief Justice Ifthikhar Muhammad Chaudhryin the chair, approved the ECP’s request to ap-point judicial officers for supervising the nextgeneral elections. On the recommendation ofvarious political parties, the ECP had submitteda request to the NJPMC to hold forthcominggeneral elections under the supervision of thejudiciary by appointing session judges and ad-ditional session judges as District Returning Of-ficers (DROs) and Returning Officers (ROs) forthe elections. Sources said that during the meet-ing, ECP Secretary Ishtiak Ahmed told the par-ticipants that the polls could be made fair andtransparent by appointing judicial officers to su-pervise the polling and the vote count.

He told the meeting that if judicial officerswere not appointed, the ECP would have noother choice but to appoint bureaucrats work-ing under the direct control of the provincialgovernments. He further told the meeting thatthere was a broad consensus among the politi-cal parties, civil society and media for involvingthe judiciary in polls.

Sources said the ECP secretary had alsoprovided the details of the facilities and the fi-nancial and administrative powers given tothe DROs and ROs during the electionprocess. He also provided the details of the lo-gistical arrangements for the ROs and otherpolling staff. After reviewing the ECP’s pointof view, the NJPMC approved the ECP’s re-quest and allowed it to appoint the district andsession judges as DROs and additional sessionjudges as ROs. During the elections, the DROswould enjoy the powers of the district coordi-nation officers (DCOs). It may be recalled herethat during the last three decades, the ECP hasbeen appointing session and additional ses-sion judges as DROs and ROs. However, theNational Judicial Policy bars the district-leveljudiciary from involvement in the electionprocess because “it affects the performance ofthe judicial officers, and could bring a badname to the judiciary due to corrupt prac-tices.” But, there is one provision in the judi-cial policy that the government could ask thesuperior judiciary to involve judicial officers inthe electoral process.

In a consultative session with the ECP onSeptember 27, all political parties asked thecommission to take up the issue with the chiefjustice for reviewing the judicial policy. Subse-quently, Chief Election Commissioner Justice(r) Fakharuddin G Ebrahim also held a meetingwith the chief justice, and requested him to re-view the National Judicial Policy and allow theappointment of judges as DROs and ROs.

TEL AVIVAGENCIES

Israeli aircraft bombed Hamasgovernment buildings in Gaza onSaturday, including the primeminister’s office, after Israel’s cabinetauthorised the mobilisation of up to75,000 reservists, preparing for apossible ground invasion.

Israeli planes shattered the officebuilding of Prime MinisterIsmail Haniyeh - where he hadmet on Friday with the

Egyptian prime minister - andstruck the Interior Ministry.Loud explosions regularly rocked

the densely populated

Palestinian territory, sending plumesof smoke billowing into the sky. Theoccasional hiss of outgoing rocket fireshowed Islamist militants werepursuing their defiance of the assault.Despite the violence, Tunisia’sforeign minister arrived in thecoastal enclave on Saturday in ashow of solidarity, denouncing theIsraeli attacks as illegitimate andunacceptable.Officials in Gaza said 41Palestinians, among them 20civilians including eight childrenand a pregnant woman, had beenkilled in Gaza since Israel beganoperations four days ago. ThreeIsraeli civilians were

killed by a rocket on Thursday.Israel’s military said its air force hadhit at least 180 targets sincemidnight, including a policeheadquarters, government buildings,rocket launching squads and aHamas training facility in theimpoverished territory.A three-storey house belonging toHamas official Abu Hassan Salahwas also hit and completelydestroyed early on Saturday.Rescuers said at least 30 peoplewere pulled from the rubble.EGYPTIAN PEACE EFFORTS:Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuheld a four-hour strategy session lateon Friday with a clutch of senior

ministers on widening themilitary campaign, whileother cabinet members werepolled by telephone onincreasing mobilisation.Egyptian Prime MinisterHisham Kandil paid ahigh-profile visit to Gazaon Friday, denouncing whathe described as Israeliaggression and saying Cairo was prepared tomediate a ceasefire.A Palestinian official withknowledge of Cairo’s mediationefforts said on Saturday that Egyptwas pursuing a truce.

israel hits Hamas govt buildings, reservists mobilised

Pakistan freeing Taliban a goodsign for peace: Afghanistan

ElEctionundEr judiciaryCJP approves ECP’s request forappointment of judicial officers as DROs and ROs

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Seven scorched in Bannuhouse fireBANNU: Seven people, including women and children, receivedsevere burns when a house in Sabirabad, Bannu caught fire due toa gas leak on Saturday morning. Relatives and locals extinguishedthe fire and pulled out the injured, four women and three children,who were rushed to a local hospital for treatment. INP

KP doctor refuses degreeduring convocationPESHAWAR: All those attending the Khyber Medical Collegeconvocation were surprised when a medical graduate refused totake his degree from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor BarristerMasood Kausar. The medical graduate, Dr Saud, said that hisaction was a protest against the violence doctors were subject toacross Pakistan. “I refused to receive the degree only to register myprotest. I demand the government to provide necessary security todoctors”, he said. He was later escorted out of the hall by the eventsecurity. ONlINE

CM Balochistan has offeredto resign: Sadiq ImraniKALAT: The Pakistan People’s Party Balochistan PresidentSadiq Imrani has disclosed that Chief Minister BalochistanAslam Raisani has offered to resign from his post. Talking to aprivate TV channel on Saturday the PPP provincial presidentrevealed that the chief minister considers the verdict ofSupreme Court as a charge sheet against himself and hasoffered to resign. The PPP provincial council had earlier passeda unanimous resolution expressing no confidence in the chiefminister, terming him and his cabinet unconstitutionalfollowing the apex court’s interim order. ONlINE

Pakistani pilgrims killedBAGHDAD: At least seven pilgrims from Iran and Pakistanwere killed and 25 others injured in Iraq on Saturday when acar bomb went off near a restaurant in a city north of thecapital, sources said. Police said a parked car blew up near arestaurant on the outskirts of Balad, 80 km north of Baghdad,killing the pilgrims who were travelling back to the capital fromthe holy city of Samarra, home to the , containing themausoleums of the and , the tenth and eleventh. Almost oneyear after the US troops left Iraq, Al Qaeda’s local wing hasvowed to revive attacks in an attempt to reignite sectarianviolence which had previously driven the country to the edge ofcivil war four years ago. INP

NEWS DESK

The Taliban are beside themselves with glee at the verypublic humiliation of Gen. David Petraeus. As the leadingarchitect of the U.S. military surge in Afghanistan, hemade thousands of mortal enemies among the insur-gents, and their old grudges only intensified when he re-tired from the Army last year and became director of theCIA– the chief operators of the drone war inside the guer-rillas’ formerly safe havens across the Pakistani border.

Now the general’s Afghan foes consider themselves

both avenged and vindicated by the disclosure of his illicitaffair with a married woman, his biographer PaulaBroadwell. “The American general’s sex disgrace is a slapnot only to the character of the U.S. but also to the facesof [Afghan President Hamid] Karzai and all others whoare pro-Western,” says a former cabinet minister fromthe toppled Taliban regime, now active as a regionalleader in the insurgency. “The bloodshed addict GeneralPetraeus was not only after the blood of unfortunateMuslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was also taking thechastity of married women.”

The general’s infidelities seem to have begun onlyafter he left Afghanistan, but that doesn’t stop his Afghandetractors from speaking as if he desecrated their home-land with his extramarital affair. “We are Pashtun,” saysMullah Juma Khan Akhund, a Taliban commander inHelmand and Kandahar provinces, “Committing such animmoral crime has a traditional punishment, and it dis-respects our people and our land. We used to tell every-one that these invaders are here not to help Afghans butto disrespect and kill them. General Petraeus’s affair givesliving proof of that.”

But Juma Khan is so delighted at the general’s dis-grace that it’s hard for him to stay angry. Laughing, hecontinues: “General, my son” – to address someone as“my son” in Kandahar is to challenge him to a fight – “youcan’t win this war. And now, even before your final defeat,you’re hiding your face in shame because of your immoral

sexual relationship.” Breaking off his sermon to the ab-sent general, he turns philosophical: “I heard on the radiothat he was the most successful general in Afghanistan.But how could someone who is disloyal to his wife beloyal to his nation?”

The moral disapproval of Petraeus isn’t confined toAfghans in the tradition-bound countryside. “The U.S.ought to keep its drones focused on its own generals, andnot on al Qaeda and the Taliban,” says a young studentat Kabul University. His shock – if not his indignation –is shared by Mustafa Ahmadzai, an arts major at the sameuniversity. “Sex is part of American political and militarylife,” allows Ahmadzai. “But in a country likeAfghanistan? No way. Before leaving for Afghanistan, I’msure U.S. forces are strongly advised to leave their sexualorgans behind in the U.S.A.”

Everyone seems to agree that the general should payfor his indiscretion. “Petraeus and his married mistressshould be handed over to the Afghans to be stoned,” saysJuma Khan. “They have offended our culture, our reli-gion, and our land.” Zair Gul Zadran, a Haqqani Networkcommander in Khost province, says he’s surprised thatanyone would get in trouble for an extramarital fling inthe United States. “Our understanding was that sex is acommon matter in American society. But if he committedthe offense in our country, there is a traditional penalty:he should sacrifice dozens of sheep in contrition for hisimpropriety.”

Other Afghans view the general’s sin with a mixtureof respect for tradition and unapologetic curiosity.

“By our customs he has insulted our land and our so-ciety,” says a tribal elder named Zamrak Zadran. “Theway to make it right is for him to get cleaned up and handhimself over to a Pashtun jirga [assembly of elders].”Nevertheless, he says, “It’s interesting how the writing ofthe general’s life story was combined with voluptuary be-havior. Now his biography will be overshadowed by thefact that he became a sexy story. I would love to read thedetails of the lady’s private nights.”

One thing particularly seems to bother many of theinsurgents. Before Petraeus left Afghanistan, Karzai dec-orated him with the Afghan government’s highest honor,the Ghazi Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan medal, namedfor a hero in the war against the Soviets. He should get itback from the profligate and immoral General Petraeus,”says the former Taliban cabinet minister.

On Thursday the Taliban website Al Emara posteda Pashto-language editorial headlined “LibertineFriend.” Under a photo of Karzai awarding Petraeusthe medal, the editorial castigated the Afghan presi-dent for his association with the now fallen general.“Just imagine the ghosts of those heroes whose namesKarzai has insulted by awarding their medals to thisdirty general. Those ghosts would grab Karzai and askhim: ‘Why did you reward such a dirty general?’ Whatanswer could Karzai give?”

Taliban pile onto Petraeus

LAHOREONlINE

A contempt plea has been filed in the Lahore High Court(LHC) against President Asif Ali Zardari after he held apolitical rally in Malakwal on November 14 in defiance ofthe Supreme Court’s (SC) orders. The petitioner, MuneerAhmed, argued that President Zardari was still continu-ing political activities despite the SC’s ruling on the As-ghar Khan case and the LHC’s verdict on holding of dualoffices. He said the president had raised concerns afterholding a political rally in Mandi Bahauddin, adding thatthe president’s political activities would affect the generalelections. The petition has requested the court to for-mally begin contempt proceedings against Zardari.

Petition seeks contempt case against Zardari for continuing political ralliesKashmir backbone of Pakistan: Zardari ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday said Kashmir is thebackbone of Pakistan and the government would continue to supportKashmiri’s politically and diplomatically. President Zardari expressedthese views during a meeting with Pakistan People’s Party leader andformer Prime Minister AJK Barrister Sultan Mahmood at the Aiwan-e-Sadr. The spokesperson of Barrister Sultan Mahmood said that bothleaders discussed the long-standing dispute of Kashmir and the politicalsituation there. President Zardari said that Pakistan has always played apivotal role and is doing its best to resolve the Kashmir dispute with India.“Pakistan wants a solution to Kashmir according to the United Nations’resolutions,” he added. He further said that the solution of Kashmir isindispensable in order to maintain peace in the region. ONlINE

Taliban email list‘made public’

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Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, an official Talibanspokesperson, forwarded a press release fromanother Taliban spokesman to over 400recipients, ABS News reported. The listapparently consisted mainly of journalists, butalso included a provincial governor, localpoliticians, academics and activists. It alsoapparently included the personal emailaddresses of several Taliban members. Insteadof using the BCC (blind carbon copy) function,Ahmedi simply forwarded the email so alladdresses could be seen by all recipients.Kabul-based journalist Mustafa Kazemi, whohas 4,500 Twitter followers wrote: “Talibanhave included all 4 of my email addresses onthe leaked distribution list ... Quite reassuringto my safety.” The Taliban regularly use emailsto send information to their contacts, usually toclaim responsibility for attacks. Qari YousufAhmedi did not return emails requesting acomment, ABC reported.


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ISLAMABADONlINE

THE National Assembly is likelyto validate the orders issued byformer prime minister YousafRaza Gilani from April 26 – theday on which he was convicted

of contempt – to June 19 – the day onwhich he was removed from office – to-morrow (Monday).

The government aims to use the rec-ommendations of the Sanding Committeeon Law and Justice’s report in a bill whichwould seek validation for the acts and de-cisions made by the former premier afterhis disqualification from office. TheSupreme Court (SC) had issued a shortorder and consequently the Election Com-mission of Pakistan (ECP) had issued a no-tice of disqualification from the NationalAssembly to Gilani with effect from April26, 2012. Well-placed sources said that thebill titled “Validation Act 2012”, due to bepresented on Monday, would include theentire country and would come into forceimmediately after passage from the House.The legislature had referred the said bill tothe committee on July 9, which gave it aunanimous approval on September 25.Sources said that the chairperson of thecommittee would also present the reportin the House which would recommend

that the bill should be passed.The draft of the bill said that per infor-

mation the validation of acts and other or-ders notwithstanding anything contained inany law for the time being in force or anyorder or judgment of the SC, anything done,functions including parliamentary func-tions performed actions taken orderspassed , directions issued, instrumentsmade, MOUs executed national and inter-national commitments made, process orcommunication issued, advice given to thepresident in any matter, including in re-spects of acts and ordinances, SROs andother legal instruments issued, powers con-firmed, assumed and exercised, or appoint-ments made by Gilani as the prime ministerfrom 26-04-2012 to 19-06-2012 (both daysinclusive), shall be deemed to have been va-lidity done, performed taken passed , issued,made , given , confirmed, assumed, exe-cuted, exercised and provisions of this actshall have and shall be deemed to always tohave had effect accordingly. The bill saidthat no suit, prosecutions or other legalproceedings, including writ petitions, shalllie in any court or forum including the SCagainst any authority or any person, foror on account of or in respect of any ordermade, proceedings taken or act done oradvice given whether in the exercise orpurported exercise of the powers orfunctions of the former PM.

NA to provide cover to Gilani’spost-disqualification decisions

Terror groups investing in Indian stockmarkets: Home Minister ShindeBANGALORE: Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shindesaid on Friday that the Indian government has information thatsome terror groups have been investing money in Indian stockmarkets At the Interpol meeting in Rome, Shinde said that theIndian government has information that some terror groupswere increasing their investment in the Indian stock markets.When asked whether Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa is amongthem, the minister replied that he would not be able to name thegroups involved. Regarding the violence in Assam, Shinde saidPrime Minister Manmohan Singh had spoken to Assam ChiefMinister Tarun Gogoi and offered him assistance in controllingthe situation. He said the number of people in transit camps inAssam had decreased from 0.5 million to just 24,000. INP

Afghanistan, UShold negotiationson BilateralSecurity Agreement

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The governments of Afghanistan and theUnited States officially launched theirnegotiations on a Bilateral SecurityAgreement (BSA) in Kabul on Saturday.These negotiations are in accordance withthe Afghanistan US Strategic PartnershipAgreement signed between President Karzaiand President Obama on May 2. EklilHakimi, Ambassador of Afghanistan inWashington, is leading the Afghannegotiating team while Ambassador JamesWarlick, Deputy Special Representative forAfghanistan and Pakistan, is leading the USnegotiating team. Both sides affirmed thatthe key guiding principles in theseimportant negotiations were full respect forAfghan sovereignty and Afghan nationalinterests, including advancing the cause ofpeace and security across Afghanistan,strengthening the capacity and capabilitiesof Afghan national security forces so thatthey could independently provide securityfor the Afghan people and defend thecountry against external threats, andpursuing both countries’ shared goal ofeliminating trans-national terrorism. TheBSA negotiations are to be conducted takinginto account the November 2011 TraditionalLoya Jirga’s recommendation that strategiccooperation between the US andAfghanistan is important for the political,economic and security development, andprogress of Afghanistan. Both sides clarifiedthat these negotiations were premised onthe understanding that the US does not seekpermanent military bases in Afghanistan, ora presence that was perceived as a threat toAfghanistan’s neighbours.

State Departmentavoids commenton Taliban releaseby Pakistan

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The US State Department has declinedcommenting on the release of Talibanprisoners by Pakistan.During a press briefing on Friday, StateDepartment spokesperson VictoriaNuland was asked how the recentrelease of 14 Taliban detainees byPakistan had impacted the ongoingreconciliation process in Afghanistan.She, however, refused to clearly answerwhether the US considered thisdevelopment helpful or detrimental forthe reconciliation efforts. “I don’t haveany particular comment on this set ofreleases. You know where we have beenon the issue of reconciliation. Wecontinue to support an Afghan-ledprocess. We’ve been clear about that,”she said, adding that the Taliban,notwithstanding the willingness of theUS, were not interested in the talks atpresent. “It’s the Taliban who have beensaying since March (this year) that theyare suspending their participation inthat,” she said, while clearly hinting thatthe reconciliation efforts were headingnowhere at the moment as far as the USwas concerned. US special envoy MarcGrossman has been undertaking hecticefforts for a negotiated peace settlementin Afghanistan without much output sofar. It may be added here that Pakistan’sForeign Ministry - with the consent ofthe Afghanistan government - hadannounced to release an unspecifiednumber of Taliban detainees a couple ofdays ago. KARAChI: Indian fishermen arrested for trespassing into Pakistani waters locked up at the Docks Police Station on Saturday. INP

QUETTA: An Afghan refugee woman registers her family at

UNHCR office before leave for Afghanistan on Saturday. INP



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NewsnaB chairman vows not to stepdown, wants toeliminate corruption

ISLAMABADONlINE

The National Accountability Bureau(NAB) Chairman Fasih Bukhari vowednot to step down from his post sayingthat he would eliminate the curse ofcorruption from the country.Addressing a press conference at NABHeadquarters, Bukhari said that hewould not resign as NAB chairmanuntil the authorities force him out.Terming corruption as the biggestproblem being faced by the country,Bukhari said he was appointed toeliminate corruption from the countryand that he would not rest until hecompletes his task. He said corruptionhas its roots in every department ofthe country, and in order to eliminatethis curse solid steps have to be taken.Former Naval chief also said thatdespite all his efforts he has beencriticized by some political parties andbeen accused of corruption.

Pakistan announces$10, 000 for unWomen’s Fund

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The Permanent Representative ofPakistan at the United Nations (UN),Ambassador Masood Khan announcedon Saturday that Pakistan will make acontribution of $ 10,000 for the UNWomen Fund for the year 2012. Hesaid Pakistan has been an ardentsupporter of UN Women ever sincethe idea was launched in 2007. “UNWomen, under the able leadership ofMadame Bachelet, is makingsignificant contributions for theadvancement and empowerment ofwomen”, he said.

Polio vaccination delayed in 4 districtsof Balochistan

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The polio vaccination campaign inBalochistan, scheduled for November19, has been postponed in four districtsof Balochistan, including Quetta, QillaSaifullah, Qilla Abdullah and Pashin.Earlier, the World Health Organisationhad raised an objection that thegovernment of Balochistan hadrecruited people below 18 years of agefor the polio vaccination teams afterwhich vaccination in these areas waspostponed. Millions of children under5 years of age would be deprived ofpolio drops till further notice.

NEW DELHIAGENCIES

FORMER president General(r) Pervez Musharraf saidon Saturday that the Pak-istan Army was in favourof resolving all outstand-

ing disputes with India, and the issue ofKashmir must be resolved to end con-frontation.

Speaking at the Hindustan TimesLeadership Summit in the Indian capi-tal, Musharraf said that it was importantto resolve the root cause of the disputebetween the two countries and then takethe relations forward. Musharraf re-jected the idea that socio-economic re-lations should be promoted at the cost ofpolitical disputes, saying both politicaland socio-economic relations should bepromoted simultaneously.

Speaking on the topic “Uniting SouthAsia: the way forward”, he said that boththe countries should work together to re-solve the Kashmir issue. He suggesteddemilitarisation of the area, giving localpeople maximum self-governance andmaking the Line of Control irrelevant byopening up a number of routes to allowmovement across the divided state. Hesaid that water dispute between the twocountries could trigger confrontation,and that the two countries should adhereto the Indus water treaty. He stressed onthe need to undo the military standoff

between the third and the sixth largestarmies of the world armed with conven-tional and nuclear weapons.

In his opinion, Pakistan was readyfor mutual, proportional reduction offorces. He also said that the Afghan situ-ation was also a very sensitive one. Hesaid that India should avoid any attemptto create an anti-Pakistan Afghanistan.Musharraf also stressed on easing visaregime, increasing people-to-people con-tact and improving communication facil-ities between the two countries.

He also stressed that the intelli-

gence agencies of the two countriesshould stop damaging each other’s na-tions. He hoped that the leadership ofboth sides would rise to the occasionand normalise ties, with India takingthe lead. “Compromise and accommo-dation should come from the biggerand the stronger,” he said, adding thatpeople interpreted it negatively if itcame from the “smaller and weaker”.

Musharraf said there was a need ofparadigm shift in the thinking of theleadership of the two countries to takethe relations forward. He said thatbeing a big country India should takethe lead in improving ties and showthat it had a big heart.

He said that there was a need totackle terrorism and extremism onboth sides of the border. He said thatPakistan was a victim of terrorismand had been battling against extrem-ist elements. He said the insurgenceof militants from Afghanistan intoPakistan was one of the major prob-lems for the country.

He said patience was required toresolve the problem. He said thatIndia and Pakistan should emulatethe European Union to improve bilat-eral relations.

Earlier, Musharraf told the mediain New Delhi said that Kashmir issuemust be resolved in order to end thelongstanding conflict between Pakistanand India.

Time to bury Indo-Pakhatchet, says Musharraf

ChAMAN: NATO supply trucks enter Afghanistan from the Pak-Afghan border checkpost at Chaman on Saturday. INP

Balochistan CM givesprotesting doctors 24hours to report for duty

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Balochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisaniwarned the doctors on strike to report forduty within 24 hours or face action. Hesaid that if the doctors failed to report forduty within the given time, their privateclinics would be sealed and action wouldbe taken against them under theDisciplinary Act. He also threatened thatarmy doctors will be posted in theirplaces. Doctors working at government-run hospitals went on strike over thekidnapping of Dr Saeed and the failure ofthe provincial government to providesecurity to the doctors.

Three bombs hitCharsadda

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Three bombs went off in different areasof Charsadda on Saturday. The firstbomb exploded in the Shabqadar arearesulting in the destruction of twoshops. The second explosion blew up abridge and the third destroyed agovernment primary school. Anotherbomb planted in a CD market situated atShabqadar was found and defused bythe bomb disposal squad.

NEW YORKONlINE

An al Qaeda operative, who on the direc-tion of the terror group’s leaders con-spired to bomb the city’s subway systems,Times Square and New York Stock Ex-change in one of the most serious plotssince the 9/11 attacks, has been sentencedto life imprisonment.

Queens resident Adis Medunjanin, 34and his accomplices came within days ofexecuting a plot to conduct coordinatedsuicide bombings in the New York Citysubway system in September 2009, as di-rected by senior al Qaeda leaders in Pak-istan, US Attorney for the EasternDistrict of New York Loretta Lynch said.

He also discussed with his co-conspir-ators possible target locations in Manhat-

tan, including the subway system, GrandCentral Terminal, the New York Stock Ex-change, Times Square and movie theaters.

Assistant Attorney General for Na-tional Security Lisa Monaco termedMedunjanin’s plot as “one of the most se-rious terrorist plots against the US home-land since 9/11”. Lynch said whenMedunjanin’s terror plot was foiled, heattempted to commit a terrorist attack bycrashing his car on a New York express-way to kill himself and others.

Medunjanin was sentenced to life im-prisonment for multiple federal terrorismoffenses here yesterday.

“Medunjanin sought martyrdom forhimself and death for innocent NewYorkers as part of al Qaeda’s plan tospread terror within our shores. Instead,he will now spend the rest of his life

where he belongs, behind bars,” Lynchsaid. According to the government’s evi-dence at trial, Medunjanin and his co-plotters Najibullah Zazi and ZareinAhmedzay travelled to Afghanistan in2008 to join the Taliban and kill US mil-itary personnel abroad.

They arrived in Pakistan in late Au-gust 2008 but Medunjanin andAhmedzay were turned back at theAfghanistan border. Within days, Medun-janin, Zazi, and Ahmedzay met with an alQaeda facilitator in Peshawar and agreedto travel to Waziristan for terrorist train-ing. In Waziristan, they met al Qaedaleaders Saleh al-Somali, then the head ofthe group’s external operations, andRashid Rauf, a high-ranking al-Qaeda op-erative, who explained that the threewould be more useful to al Qaeda and the

jihad by returning to New York and con-ducting terrorist attacks.

They received al Qaeda training inPakistan on how to use various types ofhigh-powered weapons, including theAK-47, machine guns and rocket-pro-pelled grenade launcher.

During the training, al Qaeda leaderscontinued to encourage Medunjanin andhis fellow plotters to return to the US toconduct a “martyrdom” operation andemphasised the need to hit well-knowntargets and maximise number of casual-ties. Medunjanin, Zazi, and Ahmedzayagreed to carry out suicide bombings inNew York during the Muslim holiday ofRamadan, which fell in late August andSeptember 2009.

Zazi took charge of preparing the ex-plosives, and all three agreed to conduct

coordinated suicide bombings.In July and August 2009, Zazi pur-

chased large quantities of the componentchemicals necessary to produce deadlyexplosives and twice checked into a hotelroom near Denver to mix the chemicals.

Federal investigators later foundbomb-making residue in the hotel room.

In September 2009, Zazi drove fromDenver to New York carrying operationaldetonator explosives and other materialsnecessary to build the suicide bombs.

However, shortly after arriving inNew York, he learned that law enforce-ment was closing in on the plotters.

In an unsuccessful effort to avoid de-tection, the men discarded the explosivesand other bomb-making materials, andZazi traveled back to Denver, where hewas arrested.

Al QAedA operAtive sentenced to life imprisonment



ISLAMABADSTAff REPORT

FREE and Fair Election Network(FAFEN) on Saturday said thatthe Election Commission ofPakistan’s (ECP) request to thejudiciary to supervise the up-

coming general elections is contrary to theconstitution and election law.

The network urged the National Judi-cial Policy-Making Committee (NJPMC)to honor its 2009 decision that the judi-ciary will not be involved in administer-ing electoral processes.

The constitution provides for execu-tive officials to assist the ECP in adminis-tering elections. Article 220 states, “itshall be the duty of all executive authori-ties in the federation and in the provincesto assist the Commissioner and the Elec-tion Commission in the discharge of hisor their functions”. The judiciary is aseparate constitutional institution and isnot part of the executive.

Article 218 (3), which may be used tojustify judiciary’s involvement in theelection administration, however, re-stricts the Election Commission to “makesuch arrangements as are necessary toensure that the election is conductedhonestly, justly, fairly and in accordance

with law, FAFEN said. FAFEN urged the ECP to retain its au-

thority and accountability for managingelection operations independently.

FAFEN said sharing constitutionally-defined responsibilities with the judici-ary creates a conflict of interest for thejudiciary and significantly underminesthe credibility of both the ECP and thejudiciary.

In 2009, the NJPMC appropriatelywithdrew all judicial officials from elec-tion administration duties and restrictedthe judiciary to its proper role of adjudi-cating electoral disputes that come to thecourts, FAFEN said. Since that time, theECP has managed more than 50 by-elec-tions successfully without judicial in-volvement.

Since the last general elections in2008, FAFEN said it has repeatedly advo-cated that Returning Officers (ROs) andDistrict Returning Officers (DROs)should not be judicial officials.

FAFEN noted that backward-lookingmeasures such as the ECP’s request to thejudiciary may raise doubts about theECP’s competence and its commitment toelectoral reform. Such initiatives maycompromise public trust in electoralprocesses, which is the opposite of theECP’s purpose and intention.

CDA blacklists18 defaultingcompanies,individuals


The Capital DevelopmentAuthority (CDA) on Satur-day said it has blacklistedtop18 major defaulter com-panies and individuals whofailed to pay the outstandingdues of CDA on account ofplots and property pur-chased from authority fromtime to time. In a statement, CDA saidthese chronic defaulters andcompanies would not be al-lowed to participate in theauction of residential andcommercial plots being heldon November, 19 and 20,2012 at Jinnah ConventionCentre Islamabad. Further-more, it was that that thesecompanies purchased theplots during different auc-tions conducted by the au-thority but continued todefault on one pretext or theother and adopted differentdelaying tactics and litiga-tion rather then makingtimely payments.CDA has planned to holdgrand auction of residentialand commercial plots,economy flats, filling sta-tions and other plots of dif-ferent sizes and categoriesin developed sectors of Is-lamabad. Auction of resi-dential plots will be held onMonday while commercialplots will be offered forauction on Tuesday, No-vember 20, 2012.

dBa observesstrike againstviolence onlawyer


District Bar Association (DBA) Is-lamabad on Saturday observedstrike against violence on alawyer of Rawalpindi Bar Associ-ation. DBA strongly condemnedassault on a lawyer Inam urRahim by some unknown personsand demanded to arrest perpetra-tors of this incident.The spokesman of DBA said thatattack and violence on lawyer wasunethical and had shaken confi-dence of lawyers’ community anddemanded to deal the perpetra-tors of the act according the law. Except for urgent cases, it wasannounced that no lawyer ap-peared would before the courtson Saturday.

FAFEN says judiciarymust not administer elections

TO bE COMPlETED bEfORE ThE RAINS: labourers busy in constructing a nullah. INP


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AirEx Olympiadto begin on 30th


AirEx, the only AerospaceOlympiad of Pakistan, onSaturday announced that itwill hold AirEx’12 will beheld from November 30 toDecember 2. In a statement by AIAA-GIKI Chapter, it was saidthat members of this societyworked day and night to puttogether this Olympiad forstudents with a passion foraero-modeling to get achance to present and com-bine their ideas with otherstudents from across thecountry. Having seen thesuccesses of Olympiads ofgreat numbers of studentshave signed up for thisevent, the statement said. Itfurther announced theschedule of the event whichincludes High in the sky,Sky wars, Aerobiz, SkyLanterns, Angry wings, Con-quer the sky, Beat gravitythe Wright way andBoomerang.


THE Planning Commission of Pakistan on Saturday an-nounced that it has released Rs 88.8 billion under its PublicSector Development Programme (PSDP) against the total al-locations of Rs.233 billion for the fiscal year 2012-13.Out of total Rs 51.5 billion have been released for 344 infra-structure development projects while Rs 34.5 billion for 673 so-cial sector projects, according to the latest data of the PlanningCommission that was revealed. Similarly, Rs 0.8 billion have been released for 68 other projectsand Rs 2 billion for Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilita-tion Authority (ERRA). According to data, these releases havebeen made against Rs 233 PSDP allocations. It is pertinent tomention that the total size of the PSDP for the year 2012-13 isRs 360, including Rs100 billion foreign aid, which is managedby Economic Affairs Division and Rs.27 billion special pro-grammes, release of which are made by Cabinet Division or Fi-nance Division.According to break up details, total cost of 344 infrastructureprojects have been estimated at Rs 2346.4 billion, out of which Rs210.9 billion have been earmarked in the 2012-13 budget that in-clude Rs 85.6 as foreign aid. Likewise, the total cost of social sec-tor projects is Rs 547.1, of which Rs136.2 billion have beenallocated in the current PSDP with foreign aid of Rs 8.4 percent.The cost of other projects has been estimated at Rs 40.6 billionout of which Rs.3 billion have been earmarked in the PSDP 2012-13 while Rs.10 billion have been earmarked for ERRA in the cur-rent development programme.

Police net 20 lawbreakers includingthree drunkards

RAWALPINDISTAff REPORT

Police on Saturday ar-rested 20 lawbreakers in-cluding three drunkards.The Police recovered1915grams hashish, 32 bottlesof liquor, six pistols of 30bore with 22 rounds, onerepeater 12 bore with fiverounds, one 9mm pistolwith five rounds and otheritems from the possessionof the arrested persons. Ac-cording to Rawalpindi po-lice spokesperson, citypolice held three personsnamely Suleman, Bilal andFaheem as they were underthe influence of alcohol.Bunni police also held ayoungster identified asAbid who was found in-dulged in one-wheeling.

Planning Commissionreleases Rs 88.8b fordevelopment projects


THE National AccountabilityBureau (NAB) on Saturday saidthat it has scrutinised173 proj-ects during last six months car-rying a financial impact of Rs

1475 billion and averted loss of billion of

rupees to the national exchequer. This was told during the press confer-

ence addressed by NAB Chairman Admiral(retd) Fasih Bukhari along with his team togive an overview of major achievements ofthe bureau during last six months underthe Prevention and Awareness Regime.

The projects srutinised and correspon-ding amounts prevented from corruption

were at federal level 14 projects (Rs 1426billion), Sindh 55 projects (Rs 26.3 bil-lion), Punjab 73 projects (Rs 11.2 billion),Balochistan 12 (Rs. 9.6 billion), KPK 14projects (Rs 1 billion), and Rawalpindi fiveprojects (Rs 1 billion).

It was said that the nature of NAB dili-gence covered pre-procurement, ongoingprojects, and post-procurement misde-meanour projects.

The NAB work has been varying fromcorrective advice, procedural review, andannulment and preventing gross violationsof PPRA rules or departmental rules andprocedures.

Representative projects pertaining toWAPDA, Capital Development Authority(CDA), and Port Qasim Authority (PQA)were also highlighted during this pressconference.

WAPDA incurred Public ProcurementRegulatory Authority (PPRA) Rules viola-tions for awarding contract to Chinese firmregarding procurement of Thrust BoringMachines (TBMs), which cost Rs 19.5 bil-lion. Moreover, presently, the fate of theproject jeopardised due to reported ab-sence of insurance cover to the TBMs.

Other classic example of PPRA Rulesand Capital Development Authority (CDA)Rules violations was revealed in the LEDProject by CDA, it was said.

Substantial corrections, revisions ofdraft contracts and compliance to ruleshave been exercised by various depart-ments, including National Highway Au-thority (NHA), PakistanTelecommunication Authority (PTA), Uni-versal Service Fund Company (USFCo), SuiNorthern Gas Pipeline Ltd (SNGPL), andOil and Gas Development Company Lim-ited (OGDCL) and others.


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THEY gathered in a small room inone of this city’s worst slums, adozen mothers sitting cross-legged with toddlers and new-borns on their laps, listening to

advice about polio prevention, according to areport by Washington Post.

“Keep your children from playing in garbagecans and sewer drains,” said Saddaf Malik, abrightly dressed young woman from UNICEF.

Simple enough, but then came the questions,spiked with suspicion and indicative of why Pak-istan remains one of three countries in the worldwhere the paralyzing disease still thrives despiteconstant campaigns in recent years to defeat it.

Why, some mothers wondered, were the vac-cination teams coming back once a month, in-stead of every three months like they used to?Were the repeated doses of the red drops meantto induce sterility in Muslims?

The polio fighters looked crest-fallen. Theythought this dangerous myth was dead in Lahore— a sprawling city with an estimated 1.5 millionyoung children that logged just one polio case ayear ago and none since.

“This is really alarming,” the district’s chiefhealth officer, Muhammad Saeed Akhtar Ghum-man, said in his office later when a UNICEFstaffer reported the women’s concerns to him.

Troubling, too, was the confirmation of thepolio virus in 16 of 28 sewage samples taken sofar this year in Lahore, a marked increase over2011. And three successive positive samples — inJuly, August and September — have raised wor-ries about the virus’s “silent circulation,” asWorld Health Organization officials call it.

“We take it very seriously if there is even onepositive sample,” said Ni’ma Abid, a WHO seniormedical officer. “It means you have polio in thecommunity.”

Still, overall trends in Pakistan, where nearly30 million children have been vaccinated in re-cent years, are encouraging. In 1994, when thenation began to fully engage the scourge, poliokilled or paralyzed at least 1,500 children, byconservative estimates.

Last year’s cases numbered 198 nationwide.This year’s tally is 54.

But the intractability of other social ills, in-

cluding insurgency, poverty, illiteracy and in-adequate sanitation, have conspired to ensurethat the country remains years away frommeeting its optimistic goal of polio eradicationby the dawn of 2013.

Last week, a new setback emerged inBalochistan, where doctors reported five cases ofpolio-crippled children in the restive province,which had seen only four cases this year.

The new cases are significant becausethey resulted from the vaccine itself. WHO offi-cials called this extremely rare, but it can happenin places where the level of immunization is ex-ceedingly low and the sanitation poor.

Polio drops contain a weakened polio virusthat provides immunity. Once excreted, it has aslim potential to mutate into a strain that cancause paralysis.

The five cases of “vaccine-derived polio” —the first seen in Pakistan — could give skepticalparents another reason to refuse to vaccinatetheir children, some officials fear.

While refusals have been dropping nation-wide, rumors abound that the drops contain re-ligiously proscribed (“non-halal”) ingredients orare part of a Western plot to spread infertilityand limit Muslim population growth.

A CIA-paid Pakistani doctor’s hepatitis im-munization campaign, launched to try to collectOsama bin Laden’s DNA before his killing lastyear, also gave a boost to conspiracy theoristsand religious leaders who advise parents not tovaccinate their children.

“The problem we already have is trust,” saidone health official, speaking anonymously be-cause of the issue’s sensitivity. “The last thing weneed right now is giving people another reasonto distrust the vaccination campaigns.”

Despite significant progress elsewhere inPakistan, polio has risen in the militancy-hitnorthwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.In North Waziristan and South Waziristan, tribalareas where the Taliban this summer bannedvaccinations in response to U.S. drone strikes,the inoculation teams have no access to 210,000children. Another 40,000 in risky frontier zonesnear the Afghan border also are out of reach.

One key to reducing outbreaks, U.N. healthworkers say, is to educate parents such as thoseat the session in Lahore this month. Those at-tending were ethnic Pashtuns, the descendents

of Afghan refugees who came to Lahore in the1980s along with millions of others whoswarmed across the border after the Soviets in-vaded Afghanistan.

Pashto speakers have accounted for 85percent of the nation’s polio cases in the pastthree years, officials report. These includetransients from the tribal region who relocateto enclaves here — and in other cities, such asKarachi — bringing the virus with them.(Afghanistan and Nigeria are the other twocountries where polio is endemic.)

In Lahore, UNICEF dispatches so-called“social mobilizers” to comb flyblown streetsand refugee hovels over and over, trying toaccount for what they term “missed children”— the still-unvaccinated ones who are poten-tial polio time bombs.

To help find them, Mayor Noor-ul-AminMengal hired 34 Pashto-speaking college stu-dents to bridge communication gaps in a recentinoculation campaign. He said he also recruited30 religious leaders to support the effort.

Is it working?“Parents do not object to the drops,” said

Amir Khan, 20, a teacher leading class forAfghan children in a three-walled brick struc-ture. He said all 40 of his under-5 pupils hadbeen vaccinated.

Nearby, a frail, thin mother peeked from be-hind a worn tarp and nervously greeted the vac-cinating team — two plump women in nicelypressed Pakistani-style chemises and a youngman in Western office wear. They were checkingon the 11 children under the age of 3 who livedin the refugee compound and would need follow-up doses. The thin woman reported a new ar-rival, a 4-day-old baby. The mobilizers said theywould be back to administer drops. She dartedquickly back inside.

That morning, the team also visited a pre-school drop-in center in search of five missedchildren. The staff provides free breakfast andsaid they sometimes give polio drops withoutparental permission. The five children weren’tto be found.

A few yards down the street, a little girlclimbed into a garbage bin in search of nourish-ment. She found a wrapper containing a morsel,gnawed at it, then skittered off into an alleyreeking of sewage.


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Foreign News

TUNISAGENCIES

Aprominent figure inTunisia’s Salafist move-ment has died nearly twomonths after launching ahunger strike following

his arrest for an attack on the US em-bassy, his lawyer and the justice min-istry have said. Mohammed Bakhti diedin hospital on Saturday, two days afterthe death of another suspect, the 26-year-old student Bechir Gholli. Theywere among dozens of Salafists, hard-line Muslims, on hunger strike overprison conditions.

“It’s a shame that Tunisians die inprison after the revolution,” Bakhti’slawyer, Anouar Aouled Ali, toldReuters. The lawyer had warned thatBakhti, who was suffering from a brainhaemmorrhage, was in critical condi-tion for several days.

Bakhti and Gholli started their

hunger strike in late September, daysafter their arrest for a September 14 at-tack on the US embassy during whichfour of the assailants were killed inclashes with security forces. They in-sisted they were innocent and protestedover the conditions of detention, whilethe Salafist movement charged it wasbeing victimised by the authorities.

Bakhti was considered a senior fig-ure in the jihadist movement and closeto Abu Iyad, the alleged organiser of theembassy attack who is on the run. Hewas jailed for 12 years in 2007 forbloody clashes between the army andIslamists in Soliman, near the capitalTunis, under Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’sregime but released under an amnestydeclared after the 2011 revolution.

In the attack on the US mission,several hundred protesters, angry overan anti-Islam film made in the UnitedStates, stormed the sprawling embassycompound in a suburb of Tunis.

More than 100 people were de-

tained following the attack. Tunisia be-came the birthplace of the “ArabSpring” in January 2011 when protest-ers overthrew a long-established gov-ernment and sent political shockwavesthrough the Arab world.

“The death of Tunisians because ofhunger strikes is unacceptable .. thegovernment should respond to the de-mands of the rest of the hunger strik-ers,” Imen Triki, president of theFreedom and Fairness human rightsgroup, said. “We regret the death of anyTunisian .. We have made many at-tempts to persuade Gholli and Bakhti tostop the hunger strike, but they refusedand we provided them medical assis-tance,” Justice Minister NoureddineBehiri said on Friday.

The deaths of the two Salafistscould embarrass the Islamic govern-ment, which is under pressure fromboth Salafists calling for the introduc-tion of Islamic law and secular opposi-tion parties determined to prevent this.

GAzA CITy: A hamas militant walks through the debris-strewn streets. AgeNcIes

Tunisian detainee diesafter hunger strike

UNITED NATIONSAPP

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon haswelcomed moves by Myanmar’s leader-ship to address the violence taking placein the country’s Rakhine state as “stepsin the right direction,” to his spokesper-son said Friday.

He said the UN chief received a letteron Friday from the President of

Myanmar, U Thein Sein, in which hecondemned the “criminal acts” of ele-ments inside his country that caused the“senseless violence” that resulted in wide-spread loss of life, destruction of propertyand displacement of families in Rakhinestate, located in western Myanmar.

In the letter, the President promisedto deal with the perpetrators in accor-dance with the rule of law. The north ofRakhine state has been the site of inter-communal violence over recent months.The violence first began in June, withclashes between ethnic Rakhine Bud-dhists and Rohingya Muslims, which

eventually led the Government to declarea state of emergency there. The violencereportedly left at least a dozen civiliansdead and hundreds of homes destroyed,while internally displacing some 75,000people. Since then, at least 89 peoplehave been killed and 35,000 displaced inthe wake of a renewed upsurge in vio-lence, beginning in late September,which also left more than 5,300 housesand religious buildings destroyed, ac-cording to UN estimates.

In President Sein’s letter, accordingto the UN spokesperson, he also notedthat “once emotions subside on allsides,” his Government was prepared to“address contentious political dimen-sions, ranging from resettlement of dis-placed populations to granting ofcitizenship,” as well as to look at “issuesof birth registration, work permits andpermits for movement across the coun-try for all, in line with a uniform nationalpractice across the country ensuring thatthey are in keeping with accepted inter-national norms.”

In addition, the President under-lined the commitment of the MyanmarGovernment to meet the humanitarianneeds of individuals and communities inthe affected areas of Rakhine state andsought wider international assistanceand cooperation in this regard. Ac-cording to the UN World Food Pro-gramme (WFP), more than 27,000people in the townships affected by thestate’s inter-communal violence havereceived humanitarian assistance; how-ever, it estimates that a total of $11 mil-lion will be required to cover the foodneeds for all 110,000 displaced peoplefor the next six months.

Separately, President Sein met Fridaywith senior members of the state’s com-munities, including members of theclergy, the spokesperson noted,adding that the Presidentstrongly called upon theseleaders to exert maximumeffort to foster harmonyand cooperation betweenthe communities.

United nations welcomes myanmar’s movesto address violence in rakhine state

american contractorjailed in cuba sues uS,employer for $60m

MIAMIAPP

A U.S. contractor jailed in Cuba afterbeing convicted of crimes against thestate sued the U.S. government and thecompany that hired him for $60 millionon Friday, blaming them for hisimprisonment and not warning himabout the risks he faced in thecommunist-run island. Alan Gross, 63,has been jailed in Cuba since Dec. 3,2009, and is serving a 15-year sentencefor providing Internet gear to Cubansunder a U.S. program that Cuba views assubversive. In the lawsuit filed in U.S.District Court in Washington, Gross andhis wife, Judy Gross, allege that hisemployer, Maryland-based DevelopmentAlternatives Inc, or DAI, and the U.S.government “failed to disclose adequatelyto Mr. Gross, both before and after hebegan traveling to Cuba, the materialrisks that he faced due to hisparticipation in the project.” Gross, alongtime development worker, went toCuba five times as a subcontractor forDAI, which had a contract with the U.S.Agency for International Development.

italy president indicates March 10as possible vote day

ROMEAPP

Italy’s president indicated on Fridaythat he was open to holding nationalelections on March 10 - a month earlierthan foreseen - if parliament passes keylegislation first. Markets have beenawaiting a signal on when the electionsmight be because of their desire that thenext government continue economicreforms to overcome the debt crisisstarted by Prime Minister MarioMonti’s year-old technocratadministration. The elections in theeuro zone’s third-largest economy aredue in spring after the end ofparliament’s five-year term and the dateof the vote had been widely expected tobe in early April, with April 7 the mosttouted date until now. After meeting thespeakers of parliament, PresidentGiorgio Napolitano issued a statementsaying he believed that elections forlocal governments in three Italianregions - Lazio, Molise and Lombardy -should be held on March 10.

egypt bus crashkills 47 childrennear manfalut

CAIROAGENCIES

At least 47 children aged four to sixyears old have been killed after theirschool bus was hit by a train in centralEgypt, officials said. The bus wascarrying about 60 children from anursery school when it was hit by a trainnear Manfalut, 350km (230 miles)south of Cairo. The Egyptian transportminister has resigned, state mediareport. Reports from witnesses say thebarriers of the crossing were openedwhen the bus approached. “The deathshave now reached 47. There are 13children injured,” Assiut state governorYehya Keshk told state television.Egyptian President Mohammed Mursiordered his ministers to offer support tothe families of those killed, the statenews agency reported. “They told us thebarriers were open when the buscrossed the tracks and the train collidedwith it,” doctor Mohamed Samir told theReuters news agency, citing witnessaccounts. The head of the state railwayauthority has also resigned.


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Make intelligence and prosecutionsystems efficient

a clueless rehman malik

Rehman Malik’s policy to control terrorist attacks isthoroughly unrealistic. He wants arbitrary powers given tothe federal interior ministry and law enforcement agenciesto be able to put an end to them. He naively asks whether

it really mattered if motorbikes had been stopped from plying on theroads of Karachi for just six hours. Over 1.4 million motorbikes arepresently on the roads of the industrial and commercial hub of thecountry. Banning motorbike movement practically meant bringingthe city to a standstill – with its impact spread over the business,educational and social activities. It would have caused a lot ofinconvenience, and in some cases suffering, to hundreds ofthousands of people who have no other means of commuting in thesprawling metropolis. The ban was avowedly imposed on the basisof ‘credible’ intelligence reports that motorbikes are likely to beused to launch attack on religious gatherings. That nothing of thesort happened on Friday is a reflection on the quality of theintelligence Malik had cited as reason enough for the ban.

On Friday, the PPP and opposition parliamentarians pointed outto Malik that the executive order banning motorbikes in Sindh andBalochistan was in violation of the constitutional provisionsensuring provincial autonomy. The interior minister retaliated byholding parliament responsible for the bad law and order situationas it had not passed the anti-terrorism bills nor amended clauses ofthe Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) avowedly meant to bring terrorists tojustice. He was rightly reminded that the government’s wisdomcould always be challenged because it was directly answerable toparliament. Further that the ATA bills could not be passed by theSenate because of flaws in the legislation which could violatefundamental human rights and provide the basis for state terrorism.

What Rehman Malik needs to realise is that while fighting theforces working in the shadows what is of crucial importance is theimprovement in the efficiency of the intelligence agencies. Similarly,instead of blaming the courts for freeing the terrorists, RehmanMalik should have worked with the law ministry to upgrade theprosecution department so that no loopholes were left in thepreparation of cases. Similarly, the administration needed toprovide protection to witnesses. With all the six witnesses in WaliKhan Babar murder case having been killed one by one, few wouldhave the courage to help the courts sentence the criminals. Incountries which have succeeded in dealing with terrorist threats,there has been more reliance on an efficient intelligence andprosecution system than on stringent laws. One never hears the USsecretary of the department of homeland security or British homesecretary blaming the security failure on the lawmakers or themythical ‘third or invisible force’ as a clueless Rehman Malik sooften finds refuge in.

Developing jurisprudenceJudgments, justice and law

Judgments of the superiorcourt are primarily aboutthree things: 1) deciding adispute between parties (or,in other words, doing justice

and providing relief); 2) ensuring ad-herence to the letter and spirit of thelaw; and 3) developing jurisprudence(which in effect is the corpus thatforms the ideological basis for how weapproach rule of law).

Each one of these is just as impor-tant as the other. And if any of theseconstituents is deficient, the entireparadigm of law suffers.

Judicial pronouncements have be-come the epicentre of all politico-legalactivity in Pakistan over the past half adecade. And that is a good thing – fi-nally, ideas of legality and ‘constitu-tionalism’ have become a part of themainstream discourse. But this leviesan even higher (more solemn?) re-sponsibility on our legal fraternity –lawyers as well as the judiciary – to bemindful of the nation’s gaze upon theiractivities and, as a result, to back theiractivities and decisions with a coherentand meaningful body of jurisprudence.In other words, it is no longer suffi-cient to just pass a judgment that is‘correct’ (and even popular); it is nowimportant to make sure that the au-thority of law is supplemented withreasoned jurisprudence, which can bedebated, argued and eventually ab-sorbed into our national conscience.

In several cases, the honourableSupreme Court has done a tremen-dous job in this regard. Whether oneagrees with the conclusions of the ho-nourable judges or not, the judgmentsin Sindh High Court Bar Associationcase (the Judge’s case), or MubasharHassan’s case (the NRO case), orYousaf Raza Gilani’s conviction, wereall reasoned judgments. And by thisvirtue, they could be understood,agreed with or criticised. But there arethousands of other judgments (espe-cially from the provincial high courts)

where important decisions have beenhanded down, without much clarity onthe reasoning behind them.

One example of this is the (in-terim) order, passed two days ago bythe honourable Sindh High Court, sus-pending a notification to ban motorcy-cles in Karachi during Muharram.This, in my humble understanding ofthe law, is a good order (legally). Thegovernment’s notification was violat-ing the fundamental rights of citizenswho travel by motorcycle, and thecourt stepped in for their protection.Simple enough.

But at its core, the jurisprudentialissue in the case was deeper than this.The question before the court, in allprobability, was one that involved abalancing exercise between two (ormore) competing fundamental rights.On the one hand was the right of themotorcyclists as to freedom of move-ment and enjoyment of public roads(Article 15 of the Constitution), per-haps even infringement of their rightto trade/business (Article 18), non-dis-crimination (Article 25) and an ex-tended argument in terms of violationof their dignity (Article 14). Competingwith these, on the other hand, in lightof a credible threat of terrorist activityvia motorcycles, was the right to lifeand security of other citizens (Article8) and the government’s prerogative topass directives to maintain law andorder. This sets the stage, and the ho-nourable court had to decide whichclaim would prevail, and why.

This is a classic case of somethingcalled the ‘Doctrine of Proportionality’in constitutional law. The doctrine wasdeveloped most emphatically in theCanadian case of R v Oakes [1986] 1S.C.R. 103, and was later followed inan elaborate manner in the Israeli caseof The Beit Sourik Case (HCJ2056/04). The later of these two, theBeit Sourik, is a close analogy to thepetitioners challenging the motorcycleban in Karachi. The Israeli case was achallenge the building of a ‘protectionwall’ around the town of Beit Sourik,which the Israelis claimed was neces-sary for the ‘protection of their life andproperty’. On the other hand, thePalestinian petitioners claimed thatthe building of the wall preventedthem from freely traveling to their vil-lages and farms. In deciding whoserights would trump the other, the HighCourt of Israel laid down a four-stepdoctrine (now followed internation-ally) to balance the concerns of thesefundamental rights. The court heldthat first it was to be determined if theviolation of someone’s fundamental

right was being done for a ‘legitimatepurpose’. If so, the second step was todetermine whether there was a ‘ratio-nal connection’ between the stepstaken and the fulfillment of the said le-gitimate purpose. Third, the court wasto determine whether ‘milder means’were available to achieve the same pur-pose. And finally, the court was toapply its judicious mind to balance thecompeting rights to determine whoseclaim would prevail.

This four-step process is now the‘Doctrine of Proportionality’ in inter-national constitutional law.

The honourable Sindh High Court,in all probability, employed similarsteps to suspend the notification ofbanning motorcycles. The court per-haps concluded that there were‘milder means’ available to counterterrorism than the banning of motor-cycles. Except, the rationale has notbeen disclosed (and is hidden, perhapswith the honourable Chief Justice ofSindh High Court alone). For our con-sumption (in terms of jurisprudence),we simply received a short order with-out disclosure of reasoning that sus-pended the order. And as a result,even though (perhaps the correct) de-cision was reached, the law wasrobbed of its jurisprudence. The gov-ernment appeared before the courtand withdrew the notification, as a re-sult of which the matter has now effec-tively become infructuous.

Similar exercise took place in thecase of banning YouTube somemonths back. There too the issue wascompeting fundamental rights: on theone hand the right to be protectedfrom blasphemy; and on the other, theright to use the website and have ac-cess to knowledge and informationthrough it. There too, on a verbal in-quiry/direction of the court, the web-site was banned. The jurisprudencestayed silent.

The fact that judicial activity is thefocus of so much national press andattention must be seen as an opportu-nity for the legal fraternity to impartcomprehensive and ideological ju-risprudence into our society. Because,in the long-run, as we move past thetemporary relief provided by sum-mary orders, the only thing thatwould matter is the body of jurispru-dential principles developed for ourcollective guidance.

The writer is a lawyer based inLahore. He has a Masters inConstitutional Law from HarvardLaw School. He can be reached at:[email protected]

By Saad Rasool

Mr Khan, how do you think thisprocess of dialogue with theTaliban must commence with?

What forum is the best for this purpose?Who are bad Taliban and who are goodTaliban, the terms you use to distinguishbetween them? Where has this conceptof good and bad terrorists originatedfrom? And how precisely will you be ableto go for the good Taliban?

Mr Khan, I have no qualms in agree-ing with you that brutality, state forceand aggression must not be used to over-come the forces of dark, at least illegally.

But does that give justification to all suchevil forces to propagate their oppressiveideology? Does it mean that Pakistanisoldiers must be kidnapped and be-headed openly, the brutal act capturedon video only to be released to the medialater on? Does it mean that criminalsmay go unpunished? Does that meanthey should launch attacks on institu-tions, mosques, schools and other gov-ernment installations? Does it justifychallenging writ of the state throughguns, explosives and mortar shells?

No, my dear Mr Khan, it does not.Even if someone belongs to a down-

trodden stratum of the society, it stilldoes not give him the right to take uparms against the state. It does not meanthat he should be aggressive against hisown people or he should kill innocentkids going to schools. He must not haveopened fire on innocent Malala just forhaving a different viewpoint from theirbarbaric interpretation of Islam.

Mr Khan, if someone does commitsuch brutality, justice must take its coursecome what may. Every possible force mustbe exploited to stop him from committingthe offence. No recognition, or amnesty,should be extended to him as he is a ter-

rorist and criminal. Neither law nor anypolitical party has the right to award par-don to all these criminals without payingfor what they have done. Khan sahib, thisis exactly what our religion and law say.

Negotiations with these elementswould bring nothing but recognition tosuch anti-state groups. Whether they areangry, deprived of certain facilities or vic-tim of state aggression, as you claim theyare, it still does not substantiate your ar-gument of starting a dialogue with them.The state must have the authority to holdthem to account, whatever the reason theyclaim to have to take up arms against thestate, its laws, its people or its institutes.

The factors behind the crimes canput the immediate scenario in an appro-priate juxtaposition. Society and crime,Khan sahib, go hand in glove. A societycan neither be ideal nor can it be madeso. Evil forces in human beings have abuilt-in mechanism, so its outcome isnatural and must not be a new or a hor-rible phenomenon for anyone. Tocounter such acts, laws are made. Andlaws are made to be obeyed, not to be vi-olated. When there is a question of law,morality must not be a hurdle in its wayas it carries sentiments and favours asso-

ciated with it. And there is a strong prob-ability of being carried away by emotionsinstead of going for legal provisions.

When crime is part and parcel of anysociety, it must be checked through effec-tive legislation and its strict implementa-tion by state agencies. Since, legislationand its implementation is carried out bythe state, all citizens living in its territo-rial jurisdiction have a liability towardssuch laws. Flouting or breaking such lawsmust have equal consequences for all.

Here, Mr Khan, I have a question foryou. If a certain group commits excessesin settled areas like Lahore, or any otherprovincial capital, will you hold negoti-ations with them or would you prefer tohand them over to the law enforcementagencies for prosecution? Obviously,and I hope for sanity’s sake, the secondoption would appeal to you more thanthe first one.

Then why would you demand negotia-tions with the Taliban? Are they not killersand terrorists? Are they not distorting theimage of Islam by telling people what ourreligion has never said or propagated?

Khan sahib, they must be chargedseparately for each distinct offence and ifthe state wants to do so, let it be done.

Let this state, badly suffering from thecancer of terrorism, be purged of all suchpeople doing irreparable and colossaldamage to the country and the nation. Ifthe state has authority and is supreme,let no one take up arms and rebel againstit. Let it be an integrated and sovereignstate, having the full force of law and su-premacy of the constitution. Whateverthe line of action any state determines, itmust be binding on its citizens. And MrKhan, we must not support whosoeverchallenges the writ of the state.

When a state exercises lawful author-ity, we must not assume it is committingtransgression or aggression. Surrender-ing to state can help usher in the era ofrule of law and justice. If individualchoices are allowed to override the writ ofthe state and the constitution, the anti-state elements will bring us down, thestate included, and could become a threatfor the country’s integrity and solidarity.

But on the issue of drones, Mr Khan,I agree with you totally since it is not anact of the state. It is naked aggression,and I castigate it.

The writer is a staff member and canbe reached at [email protected]

how can we negotiate with criminals and terrorists?

Let me know, Mr Khan

By Ch Shoaib Saleem


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The unification of people plays avital role in any nation’s developmentwhere civilians get together andbecome one voice on critical issuesgrowing in the country. Similarly onemore way of gathering everyone atone place is the method ofreferendum or polling in simplewords. Referendum is a general voteby the electorate on a single politicalquestion that has been referred tothem for a direct decision. So what isthat hot topic which is doing roundsin Pakistan nowadays? The nationalreferendum announced by TheMuttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)asking Pakistanis if they want Quaid-e-Azam’s Pakistan or Taliban’sPakistan.

Initially, this referendum was to

be held on November 8, but then itwas postponed to November 14 forsome unknowing reasons and thenthe party again adjourned it inrespect to Muslim holy month ofMuharram. Firstly, the MQM took agood initiative for improving thesevere conditions of Karachi but thisreferendum is of no use as it does notmake any sense. Can MQM define‘Quaid’s Pakistan’? Secondly, who hasgiven the right to MQM to hold anational referendum on any issue?According to the leader of this partyPakistan was encircled by manyproblems and they want to pull it outof these problems as it would go along way in strengthening theposition of the country and put it onthe path of progress and prosperity. I

personally don’t think so, this is notan issue on which the people will beunited instead they will get apartfrom each other as such referendumsare just a matter of creating uproaramongst them.

On one side, the MQM wants toeradicate target killing from thecountry while on the contrary, theyhave introduced this plebiscite whichwill increase the number of killingsrather than declining it. Thisreferendum makes no sense to mebecause our leader Jinnah alsowanted a state based on Islamicideology and Taliban also want anIslamic nation, the difference is justthat Taliban’s Islamic state runs onextremism. The MQM being veryprotective about its’ country walked

out of the National Assembly becausethey wanted the prime minister totake action on the worseningconditions of Karachi. So now whatare they doing by starting suchreferendums through which theturmoil will grow more rapidly?

The MQM is surely an influentialpolitical party of Pakistan, so theyshould try to eliminate the terror ofTaliban from our motherland ratherthan handing over Pakistan to theTaliban. I still don’t understand whatbenefit they will give to Pakistan fromthis so-called voting campaign as itwas Jinnah’s Pakistan, it is Jinnah’sPakistan and it will remain Jinnah’sPakistan, forever.

SANA MALIKKarachi

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uVaS develops vaccineFoot and Mouth disease (FMD) is a viral problem

of cloven footed animals such as cattle, buffalo,sheep, goat etc. It is characterized by lameness,smacking of mouth, discharge from mouth and nareslesions in the oral cavity (dorsum of tongue, softpalate, inner-side of the lips, dental pad & nose etc),skin of inter-digital space and teats of the infectedanimals. It causes loss in milk production, weightgain and hide quality of the animals. It also causesabortion in pregnant animals. Mortality is high inyoung calves and morbidity is up to 80 percent inFMD affected animals. The major constraint aboutFMD is its bad impact on the export of the country. Itis estimated that the economic loss due to FMD ismore than 6 billion annually in Pakistan.

The disease is controlled by mass vaccination ofthe animals. Both public organizations (VeterinaryResearch Institute, Lahore and University ofVeterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore) andprivate sectors (Avicenna) are producing vaccine tocontrol the disease. The production potential ofFMD vaccine by these sectors was not more than 3million per annum.

In order to develop multivalent FMD+HSvaccine and to enhance its production potential,Punjab Government through ASPL-II approved adevelopment project “Augmentation of Foot andMouth disease + hemorrhagic septicemia vaccineproduction potential and Immunoprophylaxes ofthe diseases amongst buffaloes and cattle” Worth ofthe project was Rs. 23 million.

The project was executed in Department of Micro-biology under supervision of Prof. Dr. KhushiMuhammad. Two postgraduate students including MrQaiser Akram completed their research work in theproject in collaboration with Dr Jawad Nazir. To im-prove the quality and reduce the cost of vaccine pro-duction, the vaccinal virus serotypes of the FMD viruswere grown in roller bottle culture system. In this sys-tem, cells of BHK-21 cell line grew 3 times more den-sity that that on roux flasks that are routinely used inbiologics production units in Pakistan. This techniqueultimately augmented the biomass production ofFMD virus serotypes (TCID50) on the cells.

Mrs Noreen Sarwar improved the biomassproduction of Pasteurella multocida in self made andcommercial biofermenter. It growth was improvedfrom 1010/ ml to 1014/ ml. Since FMD virus is RNAin nature. With the formaldehyde, its RNA is notinactivated so its RNA can directly enter the hostcells and initiate its replication. This could beplausible reason that the FMD outbreaks may occurin the vaccinated animals. In this research, it wasproposed to inactivate the virus culture throughBinaryethyleneamine (BEI) instead of formaldehyde.

There are many other factors which areresponsible for failure of vaccine in field likemycotoxins in fodder, pesticides residues indrinking water, and some concurrent diseases likethree days sickness, shipping fever, theileriosis, etc.

It is concluded that results of the study made itpossible to develop multivalent oil based FMD (“O”,“A”, “Asia-1”) +HS vaccine and improved thevaccine production potential of the biologicsproduction institutes. Dose of the vaccine is 3 mland it is effective for one year. Cost the newlydeveloped tetravalent (FMD trivalent and HS)vaccine is about Rs 40/ dose including all charges.The vaccine is 8 times cheaper than that of importedone (Rs 350/).

DR QAISER AKRAMUVAS, Lahore

Karachi bleedsKarachi bleeds, not because of lack of law enforce-

ment agencies or their capacity to combat this men-ace, but because extortion, kidnapping and threats ofintimidation and target killings have become a boom-ing business worth trillions of rupees, most of whichis remitted through illegal channels to foreign safehavens. Today Musharraf leads a life of luxury, claim-ing he has earned these billions from his book or lec-tures, whilst major political party leadership whostands to benefit from this mayhem, either them-selves, or their families, lives abroad, owning assetsand properties that match lifestyle of billionaires.

Blood flows on the streets of Karachi, becausethe political stake holders and corrupt bureaucracyreaps a bonanza from these crimes. This is the

unfortunate sad and harsh reality. All that we hearis rhetoric and nothing else. The Pakistani state, itsexecutive and the establishment, have failed to fulfiltheir basic responsibility, which is to protect livesand property of citizens, having already failed toprovide basic health, education or welfare to mostdeprived sections of our society.

Inspite of existence and maintenance of basicinfrastructure, funded by tax payers, to enforce rule oflaw, those at helm have deliberately allowed this cityto be ruled by criminals, murderers, land and drugmafia. In such an environment, which is conducive forcriminals, the religious fanatics funded by foreignelements, have also moved in for a share of the pie.

M T AliIllinois, USA

“Shut up, idiot”Who other than an army general can say to a

journalist “shut up, idiot”. Some Pakistani generalsare not ordinary human beings, they are supermen,self-claimed saviours of Pakistan. We should notforget that it was generals who assumed the role ofthe saviour and pushed the country off the trackenvisioned by M A Jinnah, the founding father ofPakistan. Not all are same though. I have personallymet a general who posed himself as a superman andtreated me with the mindset that I really was abloody civilian. On the other hand, I have also met ageneral who never allowed superficial power to stiffhis neck. He showed the impression that he believedthat real saviours were the people of Pakistan. Thegenerals are public servants and are supposed to besubservient to the elected civilian governments.

The people never mandated them to assume therole of saviours. Why can’t generals be criticised andquestioned and why don’t they have any answers?Why don’t they have the ability to listen tocriticism? Why don’t they allow another point ofview? Why have they lost the virtue of tolerance?

Every Pakistani, irrespective of his/her status,should respect the constitution and strive for rule oflaw, if we want to have any respect in the world.

S T HUSSAINLahore

Jinnah’s Pakistan or...

this is PakistanThere is no doubt that the country is

in the grip of complete lawlessness. Allgovernment entities including hospitalsand educational institutions are sufferingfrom this malaise. Government schoolcompounds and playgrounds are beingused for wedding parties and studentsare sent on forced leave. According tomedia reports, this is happening mostlyin Punjab, where the Shahbaz Sharifwants to educate every child. This doesnot happen in civilised societies.

In government run hospitals,medicine is not available due tobudgetary constraints, emergencies areclosed on flimsy grounds threateninglives of suffering patients. Doctors, ourmessiahs, are on strike for the last 32days in Quetta. Private schools andhospitals are fleecing the public withoutany check. Who cares for life in Pakistan?

In government offices, that aremeant to be for the welfare of thegeneral public, no work is being done.Senior bureaucracy is busy in makingself-serving policies. During the lastcouple of years, hundreds of costly plotshave been doled out to favouritebureaucrats in Islamabad only. Merit isbeing flouted in the matter ofpromotions and postings. There is noaccountability at all. People have lostfaith in the civil service of the country.

There is no respect for rule of law.Verdicts of the higher judiciary are beingdisregarded by the executive. Secretariesand senior officers do not attendmeetings of parliamentary committeesand Public Accounts Committee.

Precious lives are being lost inKarachi every day. The law enforcementagencies, including the police, are help-less against the killing spree and exploitsof extortion mafia. Pakistan Airlines andPakistan Railways are financially inmess. Mismanagement is the name of thegame. Is not this collapse of the system?

Altaf Hussain, founder of MQM, hasurged the people to form committees toprotect life and property in Karachiduring Muharram. This is a good ideabut remember when vigilantes come,people’s revolution is not far behind.

ASGHAR MAHMOODIslamabad



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i’m what men would call acheap date: Penelope cruz

PeNeLoPe Cruz says that she believes she has

mellowed down with age and that she cannot

tolerate alcohol like she once could. the

Bandidas star confessed that she has left her wild

child days behind and now has settled into married

life and parenthood with spanish actor Javier

Bardem. “About ten years ago I had a wild, confused

phase - I just wanted to get lost in life and not think

about the consequences,” News.com.au quoted her

as telling German magazine In. “After two beers

now I’m already tipsy. I guess, I’m what men would

call a cheap date!” she added. NEWS DESK

Psy lands american Musicaward for Gangnam Style

South Korean rapper Psy has been given an

early 2012 American Music Awards (AMAs).

he has been awarded the New Media

accolade six days before the red carpet event

here. Psy got overnight fame with his catchy tune

Gangnam style. the promo for the hit single has

become the most popular video in Youtube history

and has received more than 717 million views to

date since its release in July this year. his huge

online success has now earned him an early AMA

prize. he follows the footsteps of previous

honorees Karmin, Destorm and Christina Grimmie,

reports contactmusic. Psy, who shares the same

manager as Justin Bieber, will be presented with

the award during the pre-show activities and will

perform his unique dance moves at the ceremony

here itself. NEWS DESK

lindsay lohan wanted to quit acting

ACtress Lindsay Lohan says she felt lonely

while struggling to cope with her personal

issues and considered giving up her acting

career. the 26-year-old, who is known for her work in

movies like “Mean Girls”, “Bobby” and “I Know Who

Killed Me”, went through turbulent years as she fought

legal battles and faced numerous stints in prison and

rehab. the actress says she did not know what to do

in her life ahead, reports dailystar.co.uk. “there was a

point when it got really lonely. I was being hounded a

lot. I didn’t know what do... I didn’t want to listen to

anyone. I was very stubborn... (I asked myself) ‘Do I

do this or do I take the easy way out and just stop?’

But I love acting,” Lohan said. “It’s unfortunate that

people began to know me as a celebrity rather than

as an actress. I can hope to gain that respect back

only through my work.” she added. NEWS DESK

SHE has already made her big Bolly-wood debut with Jism 2 earlier thisyear. Now Sunny Leone will have to go

through an extensive preparation pro-gramme for her second film, Ragini MMS 2.Starting December end, the adult film starwill kick off a month-long prep course forEkta Kapoor’s horror film. “Being a thriller-horror, it’s going to be a very performance-driven role. And that’s why Ekta and thecreative heads at Balaji don’t want to takeany chances. So, four different trainers are inthe process of being appointed to train Sunnyin different performance forms. While two ofthem will coach her in acting and diction, an-other one will be involved with physicaltraining because a lot of cable work and har-nesses will be used while filming. I cannot di-vulge details about the fourth coach,” says an

insider close to the project.When contacted, Ekta says, “Yes, we are

going to hire trainers because at Balaji we al-ways strive for perfection.” Ragini MMS 2 isthe sequel to last year’s sleeper hit. Sunny hasalready been through a detailed narrative ofthe film. “She has been asked to watch a num-ber of American horror films and TV shows toget into the groove because she is scared ofhorror movies. So, the Balaji creative headshave marked certain scenes and sequencesfrom these films and shows for her to use asreference points,” adds the insider. Sunny,who is currently in the US, is flying down toMumbai by mid-December. “From then on,her training process will also kick off. She willtake a small break for New Year’s and then hercoaching will continue until the shoot startson January 15,” adds the insider. NEWS DESK

KRISTEN Stewart and Robert Pattinsonhave reunited on the red carpet, buttheir reconciliation in real life maytake more time, sources say.

BOTTOM OF FORM: As “The TwilightSaga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2” brings thedramatic vampire series to a close thismonth, Kristen Stewart and RobertPattinson are just beginning to rekindle

their romance off-screen. And, according tosources close to the actors, the road toward

reconciliation isn’t clear just yet. “He’snever going to forget what she did, but

he has forgiven her,” the pal told UsWeekly. “Almost losing him was a

wake-up call for Kristen. AndRob doesn’t want to be angryanymore. They want to moveforward.” Stewart, 22, andPattinson, 26, have beenmaking a show of being happilyreunited on the red carpet atpremieres for their new filmtogether in recent weeks, butout of the spotlight, anothersource said, they’re still working

toward normalcy. “There aregood days and bad days,” the

source said. “She still feels guilty.”Neither of the two camera-shy

actors has formally spoken outabout the status of their relationship justyet, but Stewart did comment terselyduring an interview on the “Today” showearlier this month. “Kristen, you have somany fans, and they will be mad at us ifwe don’t ask you,” host SavannahGuthrie prefaced. “Are you backtogether with Robert Pattinson?”Stewart stalled for a bit beforeanswering, gazing at the floor andsmoothing back her hair. “Funny youmention that,” she said evenly. “I’mgoing to just let people watch whateverlittle movie they think our lives are.Keep ‘em guessing, I always say.”According to a production source onthe set of the couple’s “Twilight” films,Stewart is still racked with guilt overher summer fling with her “SnowWhite and the Huntsman” director,Rupert Sanders. “She still thinks the

world hates her,” the source told Us.“It’s hard to resume a relationship after

something like that.” NEWS DESK

Ekta Kapoor hires fourcoaches to help Sunny leone

Lindsay Lohan leaving

"Good Morning America"

studio in New York City.

Stewart ‘still feels guilty’ forcheating on Pattinson, but thepair wants to ‘move forward’

W HEN Ben Affleck broke onto the scenein 1997’s “Good Will Hunting,” fanscouldn’t get enough of his success story,lapping up all the details of his friend-ship with Matt Damon and how the two

childhood friends from Cambridge, Massachusetts,went on to become the young toasts of Hollywood.But just a few years later, Affleck made a string of re-ally bad movies (“Gigli,” anyone?) and on top of thathe started dating Jennifer Lopez in 2002. Thecelebrity coupling was greatly dis-dained and widely criticized, whichis something that still bothers Af-fleck a decade later. In fact, in thelatest issue of GQ, he says thetreatment he received from thepress at the time was worsethan what was beingsaid aboutcon-



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‘aman Ki asha’ goes onfloors March 2013

FILMMAKer e. Niwas, who is gearing up for his

next project tentatively titled ” Aman Ki Asha”,

says the movie will go on floors in March 2013.

the movie stars Pakistani actor Ali Zafar and actress

Yami Gautam of Vicky Donor fame, according to a

report in times of India. “We will start shooting for the

film from March 2013. the entire film will be shot in

Britain. It would be great to see a fresh pairing of Ali

Zafar and Yami Gautam,” e. Niwas told IANs. revealing

the roles of the lead actors, e. Niwas said: “Ali is

playing the role of a Muslim boy and Yami will be seen

as an Indian girl. It will be a nice love story.” e. Niwas

has earlier directed films like shool, My Name Is

Anthony Gonsalves and De taali. NEWS DESK

Big B gifts car to granddaughter aaradhya

BABY Aaradhya may be too small to realise

what the buzz is all about, but her grand dad,

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has

ensured that his gift to his grand daughter on her first

Diwali is a newsmaker. Big B gifted a red and black

BMW Mini Cooper s car worth close to rs 24 lakh to

the 11-month-old infant on Diwali. the Bachchan

family decided to make the gifting an elaborate affair,

as the entire family queued up at the showroom to

drive the toddler’s gift home. on November 13, Big B

accompanied by wife Jaya Bachchan, son Abhishek

and daughter-in-law Aishwarya rai Bachchan, drove

the red car to their bungalow. Dressed in traditional

outfits, the first family of Bollywood were all set to

make Aaradhya’s first Diwali special. While dad

Abhishek and grandpa Amitabh wore bright silk

kurtas, mom Aishwarya decided to sport a bright pink

anarkali kurta. Big B and the Bachchan family had

also ordered 200 kandils (lanterns) to light up Jalsa,

their residence, for Aaradhya’s first Diwali. the

Bachchans made an appearance for their fans outside

their residence after the Diwali puja at home. A lavish

Diwali bash followed, which was attended by a large

brigade of Bollywood biggies. NEWS DESK

Shah rukh Khan onFrench magazine cover

BoLLYWooD superstar shah rukh Khan has

graced the cover of French weekly magazine

Paris Match. the 47-year-old actor took to

twitter to announce the news and also posted a

picture of the magazine cover. “If you know French...

tell me what it says on cover... apart from my name.

thanks,” shah rukh wrote in the cheeky post. In the

photo, the actor is dressed in a black and grey shirt

and trousers. his hands are crossed over his chest

and he has his trademark smile on his face. the

cover reads ‘shah rukh Khan- the biggest star of

Bollywood. Before the Marrakech Festival, he

welcomes us at his house.’ the actor’s latest film Jab

tak hai Jaan, Yash Chopra’s last film, has received a

warm response. It also stars Katrina Kaif and

Anushka sharma. According to YrF spokesperson,

the film, a Diwali release, earned rs. 15.23 crores on

the first day from 2,500 screen across India. PTI

NEWS DESK

BOLLYWOOD seems tobe in a state of shock atShiv Sena leader BalThackeray’s death. Bal

Thackeray died in Mumbai thisafternoon at his residence,Matoshree. He was in a criticalcondition in his last days and hishealth was deteriorating. Manyof the Bollywood celebrities tookto twitter and expressed theirgrief over his demise. Here’swhat they said:

Bal thackeray’s deathB’town mourns

RITEISH DESHMUKH: Bal-asaheb was a Hero- people- Lovedhim, Copied him, Followed him.

AMITABH BACHCHAN: I satby his bedside for hours these pastfew days, a prayer in my heart,watching him struggling to breathe,but fighting. And just a couple ofhours back, as I stand next to hisstill, peaceful, saffron draped body,it is difficult to imagine ...

vIvEK OBEROI: RIPBalasaheb, The Roaring Tiger ofMaharashtra! Our prayers arewith the Thackeray family andthe millions of followers!

MADHUR BHANDARKAR:RIP Balasaaheb. He lived withgreat conviction in his believes,which led him to be a great leader.Wish strength to his family!

AjAY DEvGN: A man of convic-tions and a man of vision. A greatleader. Rest in peace Balasaheb!

SHOBHAA DE: Maharashtra’smighty Tiger roars no more.RIP,Balasaheb Thackeray...

DIA MIRzA: RIP Bala Saheb.Let there be peace.

NEHA DHUPIA: RIPBALASAHEB ... Prayers andstrength for the family.

victed murderer Scott Peterson.“At the time, I knew on some level, ‘This is

insane,’” shares the 40-year-old, who felt like hehad become the press’ personal whipping boy.“What was that guy’s name who killed his wifeand dumped her off the side of a boat? Peter-son. I remember thinking he actually getsslightly better treatment than I do in the press.At least they had to say ‘alleged killer.’ Unfor-tunately, there’s an aspect of that that’s likeone of those fights you see on YouTube whereone of them falls down and then a bunch ofpeople who were standing around come overand kick the person,” he continues. “They

don’t know them, they have no involvementin the fight, but they recognize a moment

that they can get a free shot in, and forsome people it’s just too much to resist.And that was definitely me at thatpoint. I was the guy. I was the desig-

nated person to loathe.”Affleck, who is now happily

married to Jennifer Garner, stillcan’t understand where all the

hate came from. “The amountof venom — I must have

touched some specific littleplace in the conscious-

ness,” he tells themagazine. “I don’t

believe I didn’tdeserve any neg-

ative judgmentfor anything,

but it was just way out of whack. … People decidedthat I was the frat guy, even though I’ve never beeninside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up atschool, even though that wasn’t me at all.”

At the time, the couple — dubbed “Bennifer” —was everywhere ... and that wasn’t a good thing. Theyco-starred together in “Gigli,” which was called a cine-matic disaster — and that was before it even hit the-aters. And, of course, Affleck made a cameo in Lopez’s“Jenny From the Block” video, in which he rubbedher famous backside while they cruised on a boat.Then there was the massive pink engagement ring,the grating joint interview on “Dateline,” reports thatthey had purchased “his and hers” Rolls-Royces, andthe list went on. “The most pernicious illusion, myth,was that this is something that this guy wants,” Af-fleck says of the attention he received during thattime. “‘He’s wanting this much coverage.’ That’s themost unappealing thing that you can say about some-body. And I knew how disastrous it was. It was thelast thing I wanted, and I could tell it was damagingme, and I tried to get away from it, but there was stillthis idea: This is what this guy wants, he’s a shallowguy, a camera whore or whatever. And there was noconvincing people that that wasn’t the case.”

Though he does admit that he made mistakesduring the Bennifer era. “There were ways I did con-tribute to it, still kind of naively,” he says. “Like thesecar dealerships would often say, ‘Hey, do you want todrive around a car? Go take it as long as you like. Youcan drive this Rolls-Royce for nothing, for free.’ TheBoston kid in me thought, ‘This is great! What a deal!I can just drive this car around. Let my friends driveit.’ But then this image of a young guy in a Rolls-

Royce was very off-putting to people. Probably beoff-putting to me now if I saw it. And I didn’t quitehave the wherewithal to be smart about that at thetime. “Affleck says that after Lopez — with whom heis still friendly — called off their engagement in2004, he hid out for a while to regroup. “I think I justran away,” he says. “You can only handle so much. Imoved for a while to this place in Georgia that I have,was able to get away, by and large, from stuff. Comeup with a plan for how to do something with my lifethat doesn’t put me in the crosshairs of this sort ofthing. “On the other side of it,Affleck came out a winner.Not only did his careerrebound — in fact, GQnamed him their 2012filmmaker of the year— but he also fell inlove with and marriedGarner in 2005. “It wasa really, really goodthing that happened tome around the time thatit was nice to have some-thing good happen,” henotes. “And she’s just agreat woman and a greatfriend.” And an even bettermother to their three chil-dren. “She has such wiseand certain stewardshipover these three charac-ters that I love somuch.” COuRTESy GQ

Ben affleck reflects on the bennifer yearspeople despised me because of my relationship with Jennifer Lopez


CALLED the “embodiment of pure intel-lect,” Albert Einstein has long been con-sidered one of the most brilliant menwho ever lived. During his life and sincehis death, people everywhere have won-

dered how one man could have possessed such ge-nius. Now, scientists may have uncovered a cluewithin the physicist’s unusual brain. The images ofEinstein’s brain are published in Falk, Lepore &Noe 2012, (The cerebral cortex of Albert Einstein:a description and preliminary analysis of unpub-lished photographs, “Brain”) and are reproducedhere with permission from the National Museumof Health and Medicine, Silver Spring, Md.

According to a new study led by Florida StateUniversity evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk,“portions of Einstein’s brain have been found tobe unlike those of most people and could be re-lated to his extraordinary cognitive abilities.”

“Certain things are normal,” Falk told TheHuffington Post in a phone interview. “Brain sizeis normal. Overall shape is asymmetrical, and that

is normal. What is unusual is the complexity andconvolution in the various parts of the brain.”

According to a written statement issued by theuniversity, the study, published Nov. 16 in thejournal “Brain,” reveals the description of Ein-stein’s entire cerebral cortex. To do this, Falk andher colleagues examined 14 recently uncoveredphotographs of Einstein’s brain — photos that,Falk said, were difficult to obtain.

When Einstein died in 1955, his brain was re-moved by Thomas Harvey, a doctor at the hospitalwhere the physicist died, NPR notes. It is likelythat Harvey never got permission to remove thebrain, but as author Brian Burrell writes in “Post-cards from the Brain Museum,” the doctor got aposthumous stamp of approval from Einstein’sson. Harvey had said that he intended to study thebrain, or at the very least, to find other scientiststo do so — something that was never satisfactorilyachieved in the doctor’s lifetime.

Still, scientists are now able to study Ein-stein’s brain thanks to a number of photos and

specimen slides that Harvey had prepared of theorgan. The brain, which was photographed frommultiple angles, also has been sectioned into 240blocks from which histological slides were made.

As the FSU statement notes, most of the pho-tographs, blocks and slides were lost from publicsight for more than 55 years; fortunately, a num-ber of them have been recently rediscovered andsome can now be found at the National Museumof Health and Medicine. It was with a few of theseimages, 14 to be exact, that Falk and her colleagueswere able to take a closer look at Einstein’s brain.

What they discovered was astonishing.“Although the overall size and asymmetrical

shape of Einstein’s brain were normal, the pre-frontal, somatosensory, primary motor, parietal,temporal and occipital cortices were extraordi-nary,” said Falk, who compared the organ to 85other human brains already described in the sci-entific literature. “These may have provided theneurological underpinnings for some of his visu-ospatial and mathematical abilities.” NEWS DESK

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Wal-Mart workers’ Black Friday strike

AMERICA’S biggest retailer may be in for anunexpectedly painful holiday season.Protesting low wages, spiking health care

premiums and alleged retaliation frommanagement, Wal-Mart Stores workers havestarted to walk off the job this week. First, onWednesday, about a dozen workers in Wal-Mart’sdistribution warehouses in Southern Californiawalked out, followed the next day by 30 more fromsix stores in the Seattle area.The workers, who are part of a union-backedemployee coalition called Making Change at Wal-Mart, say this is the beginning of a wave of protestsand strikes leading up to next week’s Black Friday.A thousand store protests are planned in Chicago,Dallas, Miami, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Milwaukee,Los Angeles, Minnesota, and Washington, D.C., thegroup says.In a conference call with reporters on Thursday,workers who were either planning to strike oralready striking explained their situation. “Wehave to borrow money from each other just tomake it to work,” said Colby Harris, who earns$8.90 an hour after having worked at a Wal-Martin Lancaster, Tex., for three years. “I’m on mylunch break right now, and I have two dollars inmy pocket. I’m deciding whether to use it to buylunch or to hold on to it for next week.” He said thededuction from his bimonthly pay check forhealth-care costs is scheduled to triple in January.In 2013, Wal-Mart plans to scale back itscontributions to workers’ health-care premiums,which are expected to rise between 8 percent and36 percent. Many employees will forgo coverage.Sara Gilbert, a manager who was striking inSeattle, called in on her cell phone: “I work full-time for one of the richest companies in the world,and my kids get state health insurance and are onfood stamps,” she said. NEWS DESK

220,000 children’s tentsrecalled because ofsuffocation risk

SMALL portable sleep tents for infants andsmall children may pose a safety hazard,prompting the Consumer Product Safety

Commission and KidCo Inc. to issue a voluntaryrecall of more than 220,000 PeaPod and PeaPodPlus Travel Beds. The safety commission saidbabies can potentially roll off the edge of theinflatable air mattress and become trappedbetween the mattress and the fabric sides of thetent and suffocate. The recall was prompted in partafter a report that a 5-month-old boy in New Yorkwas found dead last year with his face pressedagainst the side wall of the tent. The cause of deathwas not determined, according to the safetycommission. There are nine other reports in theUnited States and Canada of children who becametrapped or were found crying underneath themattress. The travel tents were made in China andsold at independent juvenile specialty storesnationwide and online at Amazon.com fromJanuary 2005 until now for between $70 and$100. The safety commission said the tents have azippered side and an inflatable air mattress thatfits into a zippered pocket underneath the floor ofthe tent. The tents fold into a round shape andcome with a fabric bag for storage and transport.Consumers are being warned to stop using thetents, which come in a variety of colours andmodels, and contact the Libertyville, Illinois-based

company to geta free repair

kit. NEWS

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two-thirds marine speciesremain unknown

BETWEEN 700,000 and one million species live in theworld’s oceans, according to a thorough new analysis,which also estimated that between one-third and two-

thirds of those species have yet to be named and described.The new numbers are far smaller than previous estimates, whichhad put the tally of marine species as high as 10 million or more.By coming up with a more accurate picture of what we know andwhat we don’t yet know about marine life, the study should helpscientists’ better focus conservation efforts where they’re neededmost. “You can only love something if you know it,” said WardAppeltans, a marine biologist at the IntergovernmentalOceanographic Commission of UNESCO in Oostende, Belgium.“We will not save the world with this result, but we may startunderstanding it better.” The new findings also open up thepossibility that we may eventually be able to identify just aboutevery creature living in the sea. “It may not be missionimpossible to describe all the marine species in the ocean,”Appeltans said. “We are describing 2,000 new marine speciesevery year. If we can keep that momentum, we can start knowingexactly what’s living on our planet.” In previous attempts toguess numbers of ocean species, scientists often madeextrapolations based on rates of previous discoveries or numbersof unknown species in sample collections. Those methods led tocrude estimates that ranged from 300,000 to more than 10million total species in the seas. To come up with somethingmore accurate, Appeltans worked with 120 of the world’s leadingexperts on specific groups of marine organisms. Based on theirintricate knowledge of taxonomy, the experts came up witheducated guesses about numbers of known and unknown speciesin their own particular fields. The study also employed astatistical model to incorporate expert assessments with knowninformation about changes in rates of discovery over time.Overall, the study counted about 400,000 described species ofmarine species, though about 40 percent of those had beendescribed multiple times and had been given more than onescientific name. That led to a corrected tally of about 226,000known marine species, the team reports today in thejournal Current Biology. The list includes about 200,000 animalspecies, 7,600 plants and more than 1,000 fungi. NEWS DESK

Google has nearly completed work ona new version of Google Maps for theiPhone. Citing sources familiar withGoogle’s plans, The Wall Street Jour-nal reported that Google is now fieldtesting the app outside of Google. Itshould soon be ready for Google tosubmit to Apple for approval.

Apple booted Google Maps fromthe iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch ear-lier this year with the introduction ofiOS 6. Google Maps was a part of iOSfrom the very first iPhone throughSeptember of this year — a partner-ship that lasted more than five years.But Apple has been divorcing itselffrom Google’s goods and servicesever since the two began battlinghead-to-head with competing smart-phone platforms.

Apple replaced Google Maps withits own mapping product. Embarrass-ingly for Apple, Apple Maps has beena complete failure. Users immediatelycomplained that the app was inferiorto Google Maps. It was (still is?) rid-dled with mistakes, missing towns,distorted imagery, and other goof-ups. The black eye Apple received forApple Maps probably played a role inApple iOS head Scott Forstall’s recentdeparture from Apple. Apple wasforced to apologize for the AppleMaps disaster and has been workinghard to fix the software ever since.

What everyone wants to know, of

course, is whether or not Apple willapprove the new Google Maps.

Traditionally, Apple has dislikedapps and services that compete withthe iPhone’s (or iPad’s) native soft-ware and services. For years, itwouldn’t allow competitive apps inthe app store. It has relaxed that pol-icy a bit. For example, iPhone userscan use alternate email applications(including Google’s Gmail app), al-ternate browsers (including Google’sChrome app), and alternate cloudsyncing services (including Google’sDrive app).

After the Apple Maps fiasco,Apple understood that it had made amistake. It recommended that iPadand iPhone users find an alternatemapping application. In fact, theiTunes App Store still has a place re-served on the home page that takesusers to a collection of mapping andnavigation apps. Some of the appslisted there belong to MapQuest,TomTom, Magellan, TeleNav,Garmin, and even Microsoft. Allthese companies offer navigationapps that compete with Apple Maps.Some are free and some are not, andmany don’t have the deep system-wide integration that Apple Mapsdoes (or that Google Maps did), butthey still help iPhone users get fromPoint A to Point B and show themnearby points of interest. NEWS DESK

Why Apple can’t denyGoogle Maps on iPhone

Albert Einstein’sbrain mayprovide clues to his genius



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gen Sabahat, farook, tariqlead in governor’s cup golf

AHMEDABADAGENCIES

Ahmedabad has suffered a steep drop re-cently in the number of vultures circlingthe city, but those not affected by urbani-sation and poisoning will find plenty toencourage them as long as England's mal-ady against spin bowling persists.

India took England's last seven first-in-nings wickets by tea, with their spinners RAshwin and Pragyan Ojha hunting downeight wickets in the innings, and as the fol-low-on was confirmed, a lone vultureloomed overhead as if in expectation of aquick kill. England sorely needed a remedysecond time around that might not save theTest but would pronounce themselves stillredoubtable opponents in the three Teststo follow. Alastair Cook and Nick Comptonprovided it with a contemplative, unbrokenstand of 111 as the spinners failed to find thesame purchase second time around. Indiastill lead by 219 runs with two days remain-ing, but here at last was an England batting

pair, neither of them natural players ofspin, working earnestly to come up withtheir own individual solutions. Cook was acaptain leading by example, the more ex-pansive as he picked off the bad balls;

Compton, although more cautious, showedimpressive resolve on debut. Ojha cameclose to dismissing both, having Comptondropped in the gully on 23 by Virat Kohli, atough chance by his boots, and seeing

Aleem Dar refuse a convincing lbw appealwhen Cook was 37. The BCCI will not ac-cept DRS until it is 100 per cent efficient.Instead they got Dar, a fine umpire havinga bad day, operating at a percentage he willwish to remain unrecorded.

England have no problems with spin.Psychologically, they have to say that. Theevidence, though, remained contrary intheir first innings as Ashwin and Ojha, tak-ing four wickets on an exacting morning,became the latest combination to harrythem to destruction in Asia. Ojha, loopingup his left-arm slows at a gentle pace,bowled Kevin Pietersen and had Ian Bellcaught in the deep first ball - one of the mostmisconceived dismissals by an Englandbatsman since Mike Gatting had a dabble atthe reverse sweep in the 1987 World Cupfinal. Ashwin accounted for Cook, whose ac-cession to the England Test captaincy hascome at a most unpromising juncture.Cook's methodical resistance took him to 41before Ashwin caused him to reach for onethat turned and edge to Sehwag at first slip.

England openers fight but India in command

cricket revival inPakistan only afterconditions allow: icc

LAHORESTAff REPORT

ICC President Alan Isaac is in Dhaka formeetings with the Bangladesh CricketBoard and Bangladesh Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina. Isaac was asked during amedia conference about the ICC's posi-tion on the prospect of Bangladesh tour-ing Pakistan next month and said: "Thematter of Bangladesh touring Pakistanis a matter for the two competing na-tions. While everyone would like a timewhen international cricket could returnto Pakistan should the security situationallow, the ICC's role is only on whetheror not to deploy match officials." During his visit, Isaac attended the finalday of the Test match betweenBangladesh and the West Indies. Isaacsaid: "The trip gave me not only achance to meet the new BCB presidentNazmul Hassan and new ICC vice presi-dent AHM Mustafa Kamal but also tosee Test cricket at its most exciting." "If there was ever a match which encapsu-lated the enduring appeal of Test cricketand its unique narrative, it was this clashbetween Bangladesh and the West Indies."

MIRPURAGENCIES

TINO Best picked up hismaiden five-wicket haulin tests as West Indiesfought back to beat

Bangladesh by 77 runs in the firsttest in Dhaka on Saturday. Thehome side caved in under pressureand were all out for 167 runs in theirsecond innings, having been set atarget of 245 runs in a maximum of78 overs to win on a fifth day track.

Best provided the killer blows tofinish with a career best five for 24as Bangladesh lost the test matchdespite scoring 556 in their first in-nings replying to West Indies' 527for four declared. Bangladesh hadthe upper hand when a six-wickethaul by debutant off-spinner SohagGazi helped them dismiss the visi-tors for 273 in the second innings.

Gazi took all four West Indieswickets in the morning after the vis-itors resumed on 244 for six and re-turned with figures of six for 74 inthe innings for a match haul of ninescalps, the best ever by a debutantfor Bangladesh. West Indies clawedtheir way back to reduce

Bangladesh to 44 for two beforelunch and maintained the pressureafter it as they shackled the bats-men. Best began his haul with thewicket of opener Junaid Siddique(20) after Ravi Rampaul made thefirst breakthrough by dismissingthe other opener Tamim Iqbal forfive. West Indies captain DarrenSammy said they had seen some-thing in the pitch during the lastsession of the fourth day that made

them believe they could bowl thehosts out cheaply.

"There was something for thespinners and also our guys are muchquicker, so I backed my bowlers togo out and put the ball in the rightareas," Sammy told reporters. "Itwas a hard fought test match. Obvi-ously winning brings a good feelingin the dressing room. To see that webattled and came out victorious def-initely boosts our confidence."

Right-arm pacer Best had a richhaul in the second session when hetook the wickets of Shakib Al Hasan,Shahriar Nafees and MushfiqurRahim to leave Bangladesh limpingat 85 for five. Shakib (two) got asnorter which bounced awkwardlyfrom good length to take the edgefor wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin tocomplete the catch. Shahriar Nafees(23) was the next to go offering Besta return catch before the bowlertrapped Bangladesh captain Mush-fiqur Rahim (16) lbw to dampen thehosts' chances of a win.

Bangladesh's remaining hopeswere over when debutant left-armspinner Veerasammy Permaul dis-missed Naeem Islam lbw for 26 andbowled Nasir Hossain for 21. Gazi(19) tried to counter attack withsome lusty blows but Permaulended the fight when he had himcaught out by substitute fielderNarsingh Deonarine at mid-off.Shahadat Hossain survived onlytwo balls as Best returned to takethe final wicket of Mahmudullah,the top scorer for Bangladesh in thesecond innings with 29, to completehis five-wicket haul and the victorythat left the hosts dejected.

ADELAIDEAGENCIES

Former Test stars have advised ShaneWatson to consider quitting one-daycricket to safeguard his body and alle-viate growing tensions within the Aus-tralian set-up over his chronic injurybattles. Watson has been named in a13-man squad for the second Test inAdelaide starting Thursday, but mustyet convince Australia's selectors he hasfully recovered from a calf problem -his 15th injury in nine years. Once con-sidered a selection untouchable, Wat-son's credit points are fast diminishingwith Australian cricket hierarchy,whose patience is being sorely tested bythe all-rounder's struggle to consis-tently remain on the park.

Alarm bells first rang on the eve ofthe first Test when skipper MichaelClarke admitted his deputy was not awalk-up start for the Adelaide clashagainst South Africa at the expense ofGabba debutant Rob Quiney. Withindays, Cricket Australia high-performanceboss Pat Howard put Watson on notice,admitting the 31-year-old would not bean automatic choice for the second Testif the hoped to play as a batsman only.Watson's talent is beyond dispute butthere is an increasing sentiment he needs

to shake his repeated injury breakdownsand play consistently to reward CricketAustralia for their sustained investmentin the Ipswich product.

Former Test quick Len Pascoe be-lieves it is time for Watson to walk awayfrom 50-over cricket, while legendarypaceman Jeff Thomson hopes the vice-captain's injury woes haven't put him off-

side with national selectors. "Maybe theyare sick of his injuries, I don't know,"Thomson said. "He seems to get a lot ofinjuries and you can understand if the hi-erarchy are getting annoyed by it.

Whether it is a major problem inter-nally I don't know, but I really hope theykeep faith in Watson because he is a bet-ter cricketer than most of the blokes wehave running around. "I'll admit I baggedthe bloke a few years ago, but I think hehas improved. There's no question for mehe is in our top six batsmen.

"There's very few days where, as aprofessional cricketer, you feel 100 percent. The rest of the time you battle."Ask any bloke who plays internationalcricket, you're always battling sorenessand some sort of pain, so you have to dodeal with it. "I didn't get a lot of injuries,I was pretty lucky in that regard, but ifShane does have injuryit is very hard forhim to bowl properly."

Pascoe says the time has come forCricket Australia to save Watson fromhimself and instruct him to retire fromlimited-overs cricket. "The answer is forShane to give away the 50-over game,that does the damage," he said. "We haveto take care of Shane. I would think hehas a career as long as he wants it, but wehave a duty of care to use Shane in thebest way possible in the modern game. "I

think Shane is more than tough enough,but he is such a competitive person thathe pushes himself that little bit too hard.He has a fast bowler's heart and that actsagainst him. "To me he is one of the topthree batsmen in the world.

"On the bowling side of things, heshould be used less and no longer be re-garded as an all-rounder. "I don't thinkthe 50-over game is beneficial for Shanenow. "Give someone in their early 20s achance and let's save Watto's body forTest cricket and Twenty20s."

Pace legend Craig McDermott, whoworked closely with Watson before re-cently resigning as Australia's bowlingcoach, dismissed suggestions the all-rounder is being pushed to breaking pointby an excessive workload.

"That's not a factor, having been in-volved in the Australian set-up, I don'tthink that's a problem at all," he said.

"I don't think it's a workload issue,Watto doesn't bowl the amount of oversthe other guys bowl. "Unfortunately, hekeeps coming up with niggling injuriesthat are putting his career on hold and Iknow it would be very disappointing fromShane's point of view. "But when I workedwith Shane, he always prepared well. Hedots his Is and crosses his Ts. His actionis good, at training he goes through thefacets of preparation required.

Best haul gives Windies victory in first test

Former Test greats urged Watson to quit ODI cricket

Sohag gazi took the best figures by a bangladesh test debutant.

WEST INDIES fIRST INNINGS 527-4 DEClARED

bANGlADESh fIRST INNINGS 556

WEST INDIES SECOND INNINGS (OVERNIGhT 244-6)

C. Gayle c Rahim b Rubel 19

K. Powell c Rahim b Shakib 110

D. bravo c Rahim, b Rubel 76

M. Samuels c Shahriar b Gazi 1

D. Ramdin lbw b Shakib 5

D. Sammy lbw b Gazi 16

V. Permaul b Gazi 10

S. Narine not out 22

R. Rampaul b Gazi 5

T. best b Gazi 0

S. Chanderpaul lbw Gazi 1

Extras (b-1 lb-3 nb-4) 8

Total (all out; 74.2 overs) 273

fall of wickets: 1-20 2-209 3-212 4-218 5-225 6-244 7-

249 8-265 9-265

bowling: Sohag Gazi 23.2-2-74-6, Rubel hossain 19-4-

53-2 (nb-2), Mahmudullah 3-0-12-0, Shahadat hossain

7-1-34-0 (nb-2), Shakib Al hasan 11-2-56-2, Naeem Islam

8-0-22-0, Nasir hossain 3-0-18-0

bANGlADESh SECOND INNINGS

T. Iqbal c Ramdin b Rampaul 5

z. Siddique c Ramdin b best 20

S. Nafees c & b best 23

Naeem Islam lbw Permaul 26

S. Al hasan c Ramdin b best 2

M. Rahim lbw b best 16

N. hossain b Permaul 21

Mahmudullah b best 29

S. Gazi c sub b Permaul 19

S. hossain c Powell b Rampaul 4

R. hossain not out 0

Extras (b-1, nb-1) 2


fall of wickets: 1-10 2-44 3-51 4-55 5-85 6-106 7-119 8-

155 9-159

bowling: Rampaul 11-1-32-2 (nb-1), Narine 18-1-56-0, best

12.3-2-24-5, Permaul 8-0-32-3, Sammy 3-0-13-0,

Samuels 2-0-9-0

West Indies won the toss and elected to bat

West Indies won by 77 runs.

West Indies lead two-test series 1-0

SCOREbOARD

r ashwin and Pragyan ojha bowled splendidly on

an increasingly responsive surface.

INDIA 1ST INNINGS: 521 fOR 8 WICKETS DEC; 160 OVERS (G

GAMbhIR 45,V SEhWAG 117, CA PuJARA 206*, yuVRAJ

SINGh 74; GP SWANN 5-144)

ENGlAND 1ST INNINGS: OVERNIGhT 41/3 (AN COOK 22*, KP

PIETERSEN 6*, 18 OV)

AN Cook c Sehwag b Ashwin 41

NRD Compton b Ashwin 9

JM Anderson c Gambhir b Ojha 2

IJl Trott c Pujara b Ashwin 0

KP Pietersen b Ojha 17

IR bell c Tendulkar b Ojha 0

SR Patel lbw b yadav 10

MJ Prior b Ojha 48

TT bresnan c Kohli b Ojha 19

SCJ broad lbw b Khan 25

GP Swann not out 3

Extras (b 5, lb 12) 17


fall of wickets 1-26 (Compton, 13.3 ov), 2-29 (Anderson, 14.4

ov), 3-30 (Trott, 15.3 ov), 4-69 (Pietersen, 32.3 ov), 5-69 (bell,

32.4 ov), 6-80 (Cook, 39.4 ov), 7-97 (Patel, 47.6 ov), 8-144

(bresnan, 66.4 ov), 9-187 (broad, 73.5 ov), 10-191 (Prior, 74.2

ov)

bowling: R Ashwin 27-9-80-3, z Khan 15-7-23-1, PP Ojha 22.2-

8-45-5, yuvraj Singh 3-0-12-0, uT yadav 7-2-14-1

ENGlAND 2ND INNINGS (fOllOWING ON)

AN Cook not out 74

NRD Compton not out 34

Extras(lb 3) 3

Total (0 wickets; 38 overs) 111

To bat IJl Trott, KP Pietersen, IR bell, SR Patel, MJ Prior†,

SCJ broad, TT bresnan, GP Swann, JM Anderson

bowling: uT yadav 7-1-15-0, PP Ojha 14-3-34-0, R Ashwin 14-

3-49-0, V Sehwag 1-0-1-0, z Khan 1-0-1-0, SR Tendulkar

1-0-8-0

Toss India, who chose to bat

Test debut NRD Compton (England)

Player of the match tba

umpires Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and Al hill (New zealand)

TV umpire S Asnani

Match referee RS Mahanama (Sri lanka)

Reserve umpire AK Chowdhury

SCOREbOARD


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GALLEAGENCIES

SRI Lanka spinner RanganaHerath continued his loveaffair with the Galle Inter-national Cricket Stadium as

he took five for 65 to help dismissNew Zealand for 221 on the openingday of the first Test on Saturday.

The left-armer's effort was hisfourth five-wicket haul in eightmatches at the venue and means 40of his 159 Test wickets have comethere. New Zealand struck back lateon with Tim Southee dismissing SriLanka debutant Dimuth Karunaratneleg-before wicket for nought as thehome side reached nine for one atclose of play.

"I really like it (here in Galle),"Herath told reporters. "I made my(test) debut here and most of the timeI have done well here in Galle.

"We've done well. If we can getruns tomorrow we are well ahead inthe game," he added.

Herath was the man who dis-missed New Zealand's top-scorers,Brendon McCullum (68) and DanielFlynn (53), and was well supported by

seam bowlers Shaminda Eranga(three for 51) and Nuwan Kulasekara(two for 31).

McCullum was dismissed the ballafter hitting Herath straight for six,beaten and bowled by a ball whichturned and beat the outside edge,while Flynn was caught behind bywicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardenain the over before tea.

McCullum, who opened the in-nings, hit eight fours and two sixes inan innings which mixed positivitywith watchful defence while Flynnpassed a half-century for the firsttime in Tests in more than threeyears, facing 152 balls and hittingseven fours.

"It was not the batting perform-ance we were after as you win the tossin Galle and hope to get more than400," McCullum said.

"The pitch was good. It turnedmore than you might expect on dayone but you also expect that in thesub-continent.

"We have to look forward to to-morrow and it is a big first hour for usto try and expose the Sri Lanka mid-dle-order. If we can then that willmake today's disappointment easier

to handle." New Zealand, looking tomake amends after a 3-0 defeat in arain-scarred one-day series, startedwell with captain Ross Taylor win-ning the toss in hot and sunny condi-tions and on a pitch expected to be atits best on the first three days.

But they quickly stumbled to 40for three as Eranga dismissed MartinGuptill (11) and Kane Williamson (0)in the space of three balls, both tocatches behind the wicket, while Tay-lor (9) was bowled through the gateplaying a loose drive at Kulasekara.

McCullum and Flynn resurrectedthe innings with a stand of 90 in 33overs either side of lunch but whenboth men, together with JamesFranklin - who laboured for 43 ballsfor three before Herath trapped himleg before wicket - fell in the after-noon session, the writing was on thewall for the touring side.

The disappointing total continuedNew Zealand's struggles with the batduring this calendar year as they havenow posted only three scores of 300or more in nine Tests in 2012.

The second match of the seriestakes place in Colombo starting on 25November.

Herath thrives again in Galle as NZ struggle

LISBON AGENCIES

Portugal coach Paulo Bento said clubs shouldstay out of the national team's business afterPorto's president criticised the decision to playan international friendly in Gabon this week afew days before a Champions League round. "Idon't meddle in the work of club presidents soI do not accept interferences in my role, be itfrom Porto's president or any other," Bentosaid in televised remarks on Friday.

Jorge Pinto da Costa, Porto's long-timepresident, launched a scathing attack onthe Portuguese Football Federation (FPF)on Thursday after Portugal had drawn 2-2with Gabon in a friendly in Libreville."They took the players to wherever theywanted without paying a thing, to a pitch

with no conditions at all, and a very humidclimate. It's deplorable," the 74-year-oldPinto da Costa said. "Playing in Gabon at atime when clubs are involved in the Cham-pions League was absurd. I regret Portu-gal's sports secretary of state did notintervene. It is scandalous."

Portugal coach hits back atPorto criticism of gabon trip

NEW zEAlAND 1ST INNINGS

MJ Guptill c Mathews b Eranga 11

bb McCullum b herath 68

KS Williamson c Paranavitana b Eranga 0

lRPl Taylor b Kulasekara 9

DR flynn c †hAPW Jayawardene b herath 53

JEC franklin lbw b herath 3

CfK van Wyk b herath 28

DAJ bracewell c DPMD Jayawardene b herath 12

TG Southee c Mathews b Eranga 16

JS Patel not out 12

TA boult b Kulasekara 7

Extras (lb 1, nb 1) 2


fall of wickets 1-29 (Guptill, 5.1 ov), 2-29 (Williamson, 5.3 ov),

3-40 (Taylor, 8.2 ov), 4-130 (McCullum, 41.2 ov), 5-142 (franklin,

54.2 ov), 6-155 (flynn, 60.3 ov), 7-181 (bracewell, 68.2 ov), 8-

196 (van Wyk, 72.4 ov), 9-207 (Southee, 78.4 ov), 10-221 (boult,

82.5 ov)

bowling: KMDN Kulasekara 12.5-5-31-2, RMS Eranga 16-5-51-3,

AD Mathews 3-0-11-0, hMRKb herath 30-5-65-5, S Randiv 21-

1-62-0

SRI lANKA 1ST INNINGS

NT Paranavitana not out 0

fDM Karunaratne lbw b Southee 0

S Randiv not out 3

Extras (b 4, lb 2) 6

Total (1 wicket; 5 overs) 9

To bat KC Sangakkara, DPMD Jayawardene*, TT Samaraweera,

AD Mathews, hAPW Jayawardene†, KMDN Kulasekara, hMRKb

herath, RMS Eranga

fall of wickets 1-2 (Karunaratne, 1.3 ov)

bowling: TA boult 3-2-2-0, TG Southee 2-1-1-1

Toss New zealand, who chose to bat, Test debut fDM

Karunaratne (Sri lanka), Player of the match tba, umpires M

Erasmus (South Africa) and NJ llong (England), TV umpire REJ

Martinesz, Match referee J Srinath (India), Reserve umpire Th

Wijewardene.

SCOREbOARD

galle: a three-figure score remained elusive forbrendon mccullum.


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zola tells watford

players to forget rompLONDON: Man-ager GianfrancoZola is wary of anegative reactionfrom his Watfordteam after achievingone of the best awaywins in the club's131-year history by

crushing Leeds United 6-1 in the Cham-pionship (second tier) last weekend.Leeds were reduced to nine men early inthe second half after having one playersent off and another carried off on astretcher with a broken leg, with allthree substitutes already on the pitch,but Zola's team showed no mercyagainst Neil Warnock's men. AGENCIES

laHore: the participants

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for top honour during a

campaign Jehaad for zero

thalassemia organised

by young entrepreneur

forum, which also held a

marathon at Johar town.

THE year-ending finale at the O2arena in London featured the topeight players on the AT Tour for

the year. Fittingly, it was the number oneNovak Djokovic and the second seedRoger Federer who made it to the finals.Roger had cruised through to the final,apart from a round robin loss to DelPotro. Federer, who likes playing indoors,because it removes the variables of sunand wind from his aggressive game, wastoo good in the semifinals for Andy Mur-ray, the local favourite.

Murray is a counter puncher and hadused his defensive skills in upsetting a tiredFederer for the gold medal at theOlympics. But in perfect conditions, Fed-erer’s unmatched all round skills provedtoo strong. It seemed to be the case in thefinals as well, as Federer took the firstthree games with some excellent offensiveplay. But then Djokovic started to slowlyget his baseline defence going and hereeled Federer in. Errors started appearingin Federer’s game and the tide had turned.THE MINISCULE DIFFERENCE:When you are number one in the world,every player is fashioning his game to de-feat you. Murray and Djokovic have suchgames. They return well, defend well andpass well. It takes a Federer at the top ofhis form to beat them as he did at Wim-

bledon where he equaled Sampras’ recordof seven Wimbledon titles. Federer likesto run around his backhand and hit hisforehands in out and in as they are called,meaning to both corners of the court. ButDjokovic has a backhand down the lineshot that he can hit accurately underpressure and it is this shot that restrainsFederer from going too far away from thecenter of the court. At the top level, it isthese miniscule things that, along with abit of luck, can make the difference be-tween winning and losing. And Djokovicand Murray have the advantage of youth.

Aisam Qureshi had qualified for theMasters along with partner Roger. Theyhad a lean run, losing all their matches.The Bryan brothers also failed to reachthe semifinals. The final was between In-dians Bhupathi and Bopanna and Spain’sGranollers and Lopez, with the latter win-ning in a deciding tie break.

The next tennis year promises to be ablockbuster, with Djokovic and Murray inthe ascendant and Federer nipping attheir heels. There is also the giant Argen-tinian, Del Potro who is looking at hismenacing best of late, following wrist sur-gery. There is Milos Raonic, the Canadianwith the Pete Sampras style serve. DavidFerrer will always be there, in the laterstages of tournaments, but will have ahard time winning the majors. TheFrenchman Tsonga is limited by a weakbackhand and will have a difficult timegetting past the top four. Thomas

Berdych will be contending in the laterstages of the majors, but lacks variety andtemperament to win the big events.RAFA, THE BIG qUESTION: The bigquestion, however, is that of RafaelNadal, the fourth member of the quartetat the top of the sport. Nadal has notplayed since his Wimbledon loss. Thereare problems with his knees that simplyrefuse to go away. The American hardcourt circuit is simply too tough for hisoverly physical style of play that exacer-bates his physical frailties. Nadal has an-nounced that he will be back for the 2013season at the Qatar Open in January.However, it remains to be seen how wellhis body copes with the day in day outstresses of competitive play. We may havealready seen the best of Rafael Nadal. Thefuture is uncertain at best.THREE SIMULTANEOUS CRICKETRUBBERS: Three cricket series are on-going as we go to press. Australia andSouth Africa are going at it hammer andtongs in the battle for the SouthernHemisphere while England are exploringwhat for them is the final frontier, a tourof India, where they have not won since1976. South Africa, who recently wrestedthe number one ranking from England,had their hands full in the first of threeTests against the Aussies. The Aussieshave been on a bit of a rebuild, but suchis the depth in their domestic structurethat they bounce back with quality play-ers at every position. At thirty odd for

three, the South Africans had the Aus-tralians down for the count but a monu-mental captain’s inning from Clarke anda supporting hundred from Cowanturned the tables. Michael Hussey alsomade a welcome return to form after alean trot against the South African paceattack of Steyn, Morkel and Philander.

South Africa’s batting revolvedaround the excellent Jacques Kallis andHashim Amla. Kallis has astounding allround figures that lay claim to his beingthe best all rounder ever, even surpassingGary Sobers. Sobers’ supporters wouldcite his ability to bowl both spin and pacealong with his world record inningsagainst Pakistan. While Sobers was

charismatic, Kallis has gone about his jobin a modest understated manner. Cer-tainly, both are all time greats of thesport. Hashim Amla might just be thebest, most consistent batsman on the cir-cuit today. He is calmness personifiedand his technique has evolved over theyears, from grotesque to seamless. Hisconsistency has been one of the majorreasons of South Africa’s ascent to the topposition. Amla’s wristy strokes have asubcontinental look and remind of someof the great batsmen of the recent pastlike Azharuddin and Zaheer Abbas.

England have a huge task on theirhands, in taking on a strong Indian bat-ting lineup on their own wickets. Themargin for error on Indian tracks isminute and the pacers are having a diffi-cult time of it. Much depends on the Eng-land spinners, among whom Swann iseasily the best. Swann can take wickets onany surface and he proved that as he re-moved India’s top order in the first Test.A lot depends now on how England han-dle the Indian spinners and their lonepaceman, zaheer Khan. Their skipperCooke has to lead from the front with hisability to play the long innings. Kevin Pe-terson has the ability to turn a matcharound in one session. But in the end,England have to get twenty wickets inorder to win and under Indian conditionsit is the hosts who have a better chance todo that. Regardless of the result, a crick-eting feast is in the offing.

SYDNEY AGENCIES

Australia soccer chief David Gallop wasnot surprised David Beckham's manage-ment denied he had any interest in playingin the A-League but said that did not meanthere was no possibility of it happening.Football Federation Australia (FFA) saidon Friday they had been approached bythe former England captain's manage-ment only for Beckham's representativesto respond by saying the 37-year-old had"absolutely no plans to play in Australia".

Gallop, who only recently took over asFFA chief executive, said such counter-statements were common when it came tonegotiations concerning big players, as Syd-ney FC had discovered during their wooing

of Juventus great Alessandro Del Piero. "Asimilar thing happened with Del Piero interms of the contact and, as we all know,that came to be. So let's just see how this oneplays out. It's certainly an exciting proposi-tion - no one would deny that," he told localradio on Saturday. "We're not counting ourchickens in relation to this ... but obviouslypeople would prefer negotiations to happenbehind closed doors. "At the mere mentionof Beckham's name, it did leak out andthere's been a mushroom of interest.

"There would have to be a fair fewhoops that would have to be jumpedthrough and getting a deal with one of theclubs is the first step. "There's definitelybeen some contact made and let's just seewhere it gets to." According to FFA offi-cials, the approach was made in relation to

Beckham playing in the A-League duringthe current 2012-13 season. Beckhamcould fulfil his obligations with the LAGalaxy in Major League Soccer in theUnited States and then play 10 games as aguest player in Australia. Melbourne Vic-tory have said they are not interested inthe former Manchester United and RealMadrid midfielder, leaving the MelbourneHeart and league-owned Western SydneyWanderers as the most likely bidders forhis services. "I think the connection pointsnow are going to be between the A-Leagueclubs that are interested and Beckham'smanagement, so we'll just have to let thatdialogue happen," Gallop added. "But thetiming is pretty good in terms of him beingable to come in on a guest stint from themiddle of January for 10 games.

Aussies not giving up on Becks

Blockbuster tennis year in the offing

ALI AKBAR

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campbell survivesscares to remain oncourse in Hong Kong

HONG KONGAGENCIES

Michael Campbell survived two majorscares but the New Zealander remains oncourse to end a seven-year title droughtat the Hong Kong Open. The 43-year-oldstarted Saturday's third round with aone-stroke advantage and after scram-bling to shoot a one-under-par 69, hewas joined at the top of the leaderboardby Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez on 10-under for the tournament. Campbellstruggled to keep his nose ahead but bythe end of the day, he was thankful tostill be in with a chance of winning forthe first time since 2005, when he fol-lowed up his U.S. Open triumph with theWorld Match Play Championship title.His victory tilt first came under threatwhen he accidentally struck his ball whilepreparing to tee off on the 10th hole. Theball travelled a few yards but Campbellwas able to replace it without penaltyafter European Tour referee JohnParamor accepted he had not intended toplay a shot. Campbell was in more troubleon the 18th when he found a greensidebunker with his approach and appearedset to drop a shot after a poor recovery.He did well to retrieve the situation, how-ever, by sinking a 20-foot par putt tomaintain a share of the lead. "What hap-pened on the 10th tee was hilarious,"Campbell told reporters. "I have neverdone that since I started playing golf 38years ago. But I knew it was not a penaltyand when John Paramor started walkingtowards me with a smile on his face, Iknew I was fine to replace the ball."

LAHORESTAff REPORT

AT the conclusion of the 2ndround in this three roundsMillat Tractors sponsored29th Governors Cup Golf

Tournament, the top contenders forthe title continue to show consistencyand appreciable application of golfingskills, and three of them are bracketedtogether as frontrunners at an aggre-gate score of net 138,six under par.

Gen Sabahat of Rawalpindi, whoappears to be spending a lot of qualitytime on the golf course is one, FarooqKhan of Gymkhana, an upcomingyoung one is another and the third oneis Tariq Mehmood of Garrison, look-ing solid and accomplished.

As for the other two overnightleaders Saleem Raza (Gujranwala) andM. Rehman (Royal Palm), Saleem gottoppled because of average play andwith two days net scores of 68 and 75now lies at the 13th position going intothe final stage of this championship,while M. Rehman was amply consis-tent and though he slipped slightly, heis placed two strokes behind the lead-ers with two rounds net scores of 68and 72 and an aggregate of net140,four under par.

For the leaders the going is cer-tainly looking frightful as other com-petitors do not lag too far behind andat least nine of them are in a positionto go for a courageous thrust thatcould upset those in the front. Ofthese nine three are placed at a netscore of 141 and include KhalidMehmood (Rawalpindi), OmerKhawaja (Sialkot) and Ahsan Zubair(Gymkhana)and six others lie at net142. These six are Sardar MuradKhan, Raza Ali Khan, Khurshid Aziz,Dr Dildar Hussain and Taimur Shab-bir of Gymkhana and Ayaz Saleem(Garrison).

Some more contenders who playedwell enough to deserve a mention hereare Ghazanfar Mehmood, Jamal Nasir,Danish Javed Khan, Omer Zia, andZeeshan Zulfiqar Rana. They have atwo days aggregate score of net143.Whether they can prove a threat in

the final go is a matter of conjectureand if some mystical excellence takesplace it will add to the overall excite-ment that many golfers look for.

In command in the gross sectionis Ghazanfar Mehmood of Rawalpindiwith two rounds gross scores of 71 and72 and a total gross of 143..Followinghim is M. Rehman of Royal Palm at atwo days total of gross 144 and it ap-pears they are the strong candidatesfor the first position in gross event. Sixstrokes behind are Sardar Murad

Khan, Imran Ahmad and Salman Je-hangir. Amongst the other partici-pants Murad A Khan had a goodround of gross 75 on the second day.

The ladies event will conclude onSunday. The final round on Sunday isexpected to produce fireworks in thisMillat backed championship. At theconclusion of the championship, theprize distribution will be held at 4pmat the Lahore Gymkhana Golf ClubLawns. The Chief Guest is Acting Gov-ernor Punjab, Iqbql Ahmed Khan.

Gen Sabahat, Farook, Tariqlead in Governor’s Cup Golf

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LONDONAGENCIES

Ivan Lendl says he sees himself coachingUS Open champion Andy Murray for therest of the Scot's career. Murray ap-pointed eight-time Grand Slam winnerLendl as his coach in December, and hassince won Olympic gold, the US Openand reached the Wimbledon final.

"As long as it works for both of us, I cansee myself being with him for the rest of hiscareer," Lendl told BBC World Service. The52-year-old also revealed he intends to im-prove Murray's tennis. "I have a lot of planswhere I would like to see Andy end up withhis game," said Lendl, who helped the 25-year-old become Britain's first male GrandSlam singles champion in 76 years with vic-tory in the US Open in September.

But despite Murray's success, the 52-year-old Czech-born coach says the playeris only at 20% of where he wants him to be,

though he refuses to set a particular targetin terms of Grand Slam victories. "I think[he can achieve] a lot more. I'm not goingto say number of Grand Slams, I'm justgoing to say where Andy is now," he said.

"I take 'point A' - when we startedworking - now he's at 'point B', and when I

envisage I would say he's about 20% there."Murray has enjoyed his best year of

tennis under Lendl - winning the US Open,an Olympic gold medal, an Olympic silvermedal and reaching the final, semi-finaland quarter-final of Wimbledon, the Aus-tralian Open and the French Open , respec-

tively. His Olympic gold medal came witha victory over Roger Federer at Wimble-don, just a month after losing the Wimble-don final at the same venue to the sameopponent. It sparked fresh debate overwhether Murray could become the firstmale British singles Wimbledon winnersince Fred Perry in 1936.

"I think that [if Andy's career will bejudged on whether he wins Wimbledon] isan inappropriate question because I thinkeverybody knows he can," said Lendl.

"The question is 'is he going to winWimbledon?' and know he will give it agood crack many, many times - not justonce, not just in 2013 or 2014. He has quitea few years left in him and he's going to giveit a crack." However, Lendl believes noth-ing is guaranteed with regards to success onhome turf. "As you know in sport, you can-not predict, you can only anticipate - bothAndy and I would be disappointed if at theend of the day he does not win," said Lendl.

lendl sees himself coaching the rest of andy murray’s career

cycling coaches,Judges election held

LAHORESTAff REPORT

The Pakistan Cycling Coaching Associationmeeting was held under the chairmanshipof Syed Azhar Ali Shah Secretary of Pak-istan Cycling Federation on Saturday atNational Coaching & Training Centre, La-hore. All UCI, IOC qualified coaches at-tended the meeting. The meeting was heldto elect PCF coaching & technical associa-tions. Mr. Mohammad Shafeeq Cheemaproposed panels comprising upon the fol-lowing persons for Coaching & TechnicalOfficials Associations, the proposal wasunanimously approved by the meeting:-Coaching Association: President. NusratKhan International Cyclist, Sr. Vice Pres-ident Mohammad Shafeeq Cheema, VicePresident Najeeb, Ms. Rukhsana Bibi,Mr, Sameer, Secretary Sardar NazakatAli, Associate Secretaries Murad Ali,Nasir Mohmand, Mr.Munir. Mr. Wa-heed, Treasurer Rameez Ilyas.Technical Official Association: PresidentLiaqat Ali, Vice Presidents ShahzadaButt, Mr. Ali Mohammad, Mr. Amin Su-lari, Secretary Javed Khan, Associate Sec-retaries Shakeel, Ms. Mumtaz Khalida,Mr. Sakhawat, Treasurer MohammadHashim. The meeting was attended by 17technical officials and coaches through-out the Pakistan. The newly elected presi-dents of both the association thanked theHouse and assured that they will workhard for the promotion of cycling in Pak-istan. In the concluding session SyedAzhar Ali Shah Secretary General PCF as-sured the the meeting that the PCF willfully support the association.

PRAGUEAGENCIES

Spain and Czech Republic are tied afterthe first day of the Davis Cup final asDavid Ferrer and Tomas Berdych bothwon their respective matches in Prague.Spain's Ferrer beat Radek Stepanek 6-36-4 6-4 in a hard-fought opening match.Berdych had a dramatic encounter withNicolas Almagro, but clinched a 6-3 3-66-3 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 win for the hosts.

Ferrer and Berdych face each otheron Sunday after the doubles rubber be-tween Ivo Minar and Lukas Rosol and

Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez. Fer-rer got the reigning champions off to agood start against Stepanek, breakingthe Czech in the eighth game beforeholding serve in the next with a remark-able return fromStepanek's volley totake the first set 6-3. The Spaniardwon the first twogames of the sec-ond beforeStepanek re-gained his com-posure. The

Czech broke back in the sixth game, butagain Ferrer responded and saw

out the set 6-4 - his fizzingforehand in the ninth game,a highlight. Just as he did atthe start of the second, Ferrer

broke Stepanek again at thebeginning of the third be-

fore going on to seal thevictory. "My nextmatch against Berdychis going to be difficult.The surface suits hisgame better - I willhave to be very fo-

cused," Ferrer said. In the second sin-gles rubber, Berdych faced world num-ber 11 Almagro in what was anexhilarating affair. One of the standoutmoments of the first set occured whenthe Czech produced a winning dippingcross-court forehand in the eighth game- breaking the Spaniard to take a 1-0lead. Almagro bounced back in the sec-ond set, but the home support in the O2Arena raised the temperature at thestart of the third after a controversialpoint. Berdych thought he had won agame-winning point with a pick up atthe net, but it was called out by the um-

pire. The Czech challenged and the ballwas called in, but they had to replay itmuch to the annoyance of the homecrowd.

The world number six then blastedhis serve past Almagro in the replayedpoint, smirking as he walked off courtfor the break before taking the set 6-3.

However, Almagro took the match tofive sets after taking the fourth on a tie-break. Berdych broke to lead 4-2 in thedecider, and although Almagro re-sponded in the next, the Czech playermanaged two more breaks to win thematch in three hours and 58 minutes.

Davis Cup final: Spain & Czech Republic level after first day

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fAISAlAbAD: A man walks through thick fog

on Saturday morning. Several parts of Punjab

are blanketed by fog as winter approaches. INP

MUMBAIAGENCIES

BAL Keshav Thackeray, one ofIndia’s most polarising politiciansand leader of the right-wing Hindunationalist Shiv Sena party that

has dominated politics in the country’s rich-est city for two decades, has died aged 86.

Thackeray died of cardio-respiratory ar-rest on Saturday at his home, one of his doc-tors, Jalil Parker, said. He had been ill forsome time and was rumoured to have diedearlier this week.

A religious zealot whose grip over Mum-bai often resembled that of a mob boss,Thackeray was president and founder of thehardline Shiv Sena (Shiva’s Army), builtaround his fiery rhetoric on religion, immi-gration and communalism.

A hero of Mumbai’s Hindu working class,he was heralded as a staunch defender of re-gional heritage by his supporters and de-spised as a hot-headed bigot by others. Hedevoted his public life to championing therights of Mumbai’s “sons of the soil”.

As darkness fell and news of his deathspread on Saturday evening, shopkeepersand restaurant owners rushed to down theirshutters across India’s commercial capital, asthe city’s population fled home on traffic-clogged roads fearing a “bandh”, or city-wideshutdown, by his supporters.

A bus was attacked with stones in one ofthe city’s eastern suburbs, while people car-rying Shiv Sena flags were seen forcibly shut-ting down shops that had not already closed,as the city’s police force advised people to stayin their homes. Shutdowns in the past, typi-cally enforced by political groups as a protestmeasure, have seen incidents of violence.

Movie theatres closed their gates, musicconcerts were cancelled and taxis disap-peared from the roads after Thackeray’sdeath was announced. The city’s bus trans-port company suspended all of its services,CNN-IBN television channel reported.

The shutdown is expected to last untilSunday evening, when his funeral will takeplace. Thackeray, a former political cartoon-ist, waged a 50-year campaign against immi-grants from outside the state. He accusedimmigrants of taking jobs away from resi-dents of Mumbai, endearing him to largenumbers of young working class men.

“Only Marathis have the first right overMumbai,” Thackeray wrote in his party’snewspaper last year, referring to natives ofMaharashtra, of which Mumbai is capital. Theparty newspaper is called Saamna, whichmeans “confrontation” in the Marathi lan-guage. His rise to power in Mumbai, a city ofabout 20 million people, underscored thestrong pull of religion and regionalism inmodern India, a constitutionally secular coun-try prone to clashes over its many faiths and

traditions. Always seen in oversized tintedsunglasses, even when indoors, with a neck-lace of beads over orange robes typically wornby religious figures, Thackeray held a stronggrip on Mumbai through his army of loyalsupporters, whose rallies and protests oftenturned violent and forced the city to a halt.“A FARCE”: Thackeray often referred toIndian Muslims as “anti-nationals” andcalled for Hindu suicide squads to counterwhat he saw as a rise in Islamic terrorism.He was also fiercely critical of Pakistan, de-crying efforts by New Delhi to reach out toits nuclear-armed rival. “Having peacetalks with Pakistan which is behind theblasts in India is a farce,” Thackeray wrotein Saamna in July, referring to bomb at-tacks in Mumbai in 2008. “Playing cricketwith them is treason,” he added. A govern-ment inquiry into riots in Mumbai in 1992and 1993 said “there is no doubt that theShiv Sena and Shiv Sainiks took the lead inorganising attacks on Muslims and theirproperties under the guidance of severalleaders of the Shiv Sena”.

Thackeray was never charged in connec-tion with the riots, in which about 600 Mus-lims were killed. His political influence andhuge following saw him courted by big busi-ness and some of India’s most famous filmstars. Amitabh Bachchan, the biggest name inBollywood, fought through crowds outside hishouse to visit Thackeray this week when the

politician’s healthdeteriorated.

Thackeray’sviews have beencondemned bymany mainstreampoliticians, but hisparty is the fourth-largest in Maharashtra’sstate legislature, and hisface adorns hundreds ofbillboards across Mum-bai. His death couldspark a power strugglein the Shiv Sena, dent-ing its support with itsvote base in Maharash-tra. In a video message toparty workers last month,a visibly frail and out-of-breath Thackeray said he wasexhausted and asked them to“take care” of his son, Ud-dhav, and grandson, Aditya,who are widely seen as his suc-cessors. Thackeray’s estrangednephew, Raj, whose skills as apublic speaker have drawn com-parison with his uncle, brokeaway from the Shiv Sena in 2006to form a rival party, and is seen bymany to be gaining influence inthe state.


As the federal government filed a re-view petition in the Supreme Court(SC) against its verdict in the AsgharKhan case on Saturday, the SC Regis-trar’s Office returned the plea becauseno court fee was attached with it.

The review petition argued thatthe Asghar Khan case was about rig-ging in 1990 elections, and no ques-tions had been raised about the officeof the president. Therefore‚ the courtshould not have given verdict on thisaspect, the petition said. However,

sources in the SC Registrar’s officesaid the petition was returned becauseit was filed without the Rs 10,000court fee. In the 16-page petition filedby Deputy Attorney General Dil Mo-hammad Ali Zai‚ the federation hadsought a review of the SC’s observa-tions vis-à-vis the office of the presi-dent. It said the incumbent presidentassumed office in 2008, adding thatthe court had been informed earlierthat no political cell existed in thepresidency since then.

In its detailed verdict on the As-ghar Khan case on November 8, theSC had held that unlawful orders by

superior military officers or theirfailure to prevent unlawful actionsby their subordinates were culpa-ble. The SC’s judgment had alsodwelt at length on the role of thepresident and the involvement ofhis office in politics.

The president has no authority tocreate an election cell or to managein any manner or by giving directionsto the armed forces or to civilians tomake efforts to achieve desired re-sults, the detailed verdict had said,adding: “If any such illegal order istransmitted, the same is not worthyto be obeyed.”

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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has bol-stered heroine trade in Afghanistan, the Americanmedia said, adding that the number of heroin ad-dicts in the US increased by 50 percent during theUnited States’ presence in that country from 1982to 1992. The CIA had created a Golden Triangleof heroin warlords in the region for trading andtrafficking narcotics to the US from Afghanistanand Pakistan, Veterans Today news website re-ported. Vang Pao, Phoumi Nosavan and Khun Sawere the CIA’s heroin warlords of the Golden Tri-angle, it said. From 1982 to 92, the CIA Station inIslamabad became the largest spook den in theworld. It was no coincidence that Golden Crescentheroin output soon surpassed that of the GoldenTriangle, just as the CIA was launching its biggestoperation since Vietnam, the media added..Golden Crescent heroin captured 60 percent ofthe US market and bricks of hashish appeared in

US cities stamped with a logo of two crossed AK-47 assault rifles circled by the words, “Smoke Outthe Soviets”. From 1982 to 1992, roughly the pe-riod of US involvement in Afghanistan, heroin ad-diction in the US rose by 50 percent, it said. From1982 to 1983, opium harvests along the bordersof Afghanistan with Pakistan doubled in size. By1984, Pakistan was exporting 70 percent of theworld’s heroin. During the era of former PresidentZia ul-Haq, Pakistan became the third largest re-cipient of US military aid in the world, behindonly Israel and Egypt. Much of that aid was goingto arm the Afghan Mujahideen who launchedraids into Afghanistan, seizing large chunks ofreal estate and immediately planting it to poppies.

In September 1985, the Pakistan Herald re-ported that military trucks belonging to the Na-tional Logistics Cell of the Pakistan army werebeing used to transport arms from Karachi portto Peshawar on behalf of the CIA, and that thosesame trucks were returning to Karachi sealed bythe Pakistani military and loaded with heroin.

cia boosts afghan heroin trade: reportSC returns govt’s petition againstAsghar Khan case verdict

ISLAMABADONlINE

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said onSaturday that it was time to rise above pettyfights and criticism, and build consensus andunity in the nation.

While inaugurating a shelter for homelesschildren at Sultana Foundation on Saturday‚he said the country was facing multiple chal-lenges, but all the problems these can besorted out by developing national consensus.He said the government’s efforts for buildingnational consensus had started paying divi-dends. He said all Pakistanis should rise abovecast‚ creed and sectarian differences, andstand united to confront the challenges of ex-tremism and terrorism. He said a handful ofmisguided elements could not dictate their

terms to the peaceful majority.Calling the youth an “asset”, He said col-

lective efforts would be made for their welfareand education. He said education budgetwould be increased to raise literacy rate. Hesaid that under the 18th Amendment‚ educa-tion had been devolved to the provinces. Headded that the federal government would con-tinue to play its role to promote education. Hesaid the government was making efforts to im-prove the standard of education at federalschools. Paying tributes to the welfare servicesof Sultana Foundation‚ he said those workingfor the welfare of humanity were the asset ofthe nation. He asked Sultana Foundation toenter into a public-private partnership foropening schools in Islamabad and the farflung areas of the country. He announced Rs50 million for the foundation.

Pakistan needs unity, notdisputes and criticism: PM

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